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Welcome everyone, Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are joined by Mark Castell who is going to enlighten us about some of the areas of labeling in the organic industries you're probably not aware of. So very enlightening to help us make

careful choices when we're considering food purchases. So welcome to thank you for joining us today.

Thank you very much. All right. So why don't you give us a history of your organization that you're with

and you know how you came about to do this.

Sure. This is the 20th anniversary of Will Fantel and I becoming organic industry

watchdogs and it's kind of a shame that this was necessary.

Organic I is both a corporate and governmental watchdog.

Congress in 1990 passed the Organic Foods

Production Act. It gave the USDA the responsibility to protect industry stakeholders, so farmers, ethical business people and

eaters, consumers, protect them from unfair competition and fraud.

And the legislation itself is really pretty solid and well intended.

Unfortunately, like a lot of things that happen get handed over to the bureaucrats

in Washington and the political appointees of both parties something gets lost in translation.

So when organics first launched, when we in earnest attempted to commercialize the sector in the 1980s.

We were attacked by corporate agribusiness.

The USDA testified in Congress they didn't want to regulate organic food. Their patrons, the

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