New EU Logo

"EU ministers on Tuesday ended 18 months of squabbling over new rules for organic farming and came up with a labelling system aimed at informing consumers better on what they are buying.

Farmers who sell produce containing at least 95 percent organic ingredients will use a special EU logo, along with a label to indicate the product's origin. Below that, there will be labelling of the organic ingredients present.

"This is an excellent agreement which will help consumers to recognize organic products throughout the EU more easily and give them assurances of precisely what they are buying," the EU agriculture commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel, said. Environmental groups sought even tougher standards."

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