Organic Purchases Make Up Three Percent

"U.S. organic milk sales jumped 14 percent to $899 million for the year ended April 21, according to ACNielsen.

Within the overall milk category, organic dairy milk refrigerated sales increased just over 17 percent to $569.8 million. Overall milk sales fell 2 percent to $11.6 billion, the market research firm said. The statistics covered U.S. food, drug and mass merchandisers, not including Wal-Mart.

Organic baby food sales surged nearly 24 percent to $121 million. Total baby food sales were up almost 4 percent to $3.7 billion. Organic baby juice sales skyrocketed to $2 million from $89,872.

According to preliminary findings from the Organic Trade Association's 2007 Manufacturers Survey released earlier this month, sales of organic baby food posted a 21.5 percent gain in 2006.

U.S. organic food sales totaled nearly $17 billion in 2006, up 22 percent over previous year, OTA reported."

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