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Obsessed with “organic pigs”, a coal baron creates his own farming model to become a pig keeper deep in the Xia County mountains

        Four years ago, he gave up the privileged lifestyle of a coal baron and went to the Zhongtiao Mountains in Xia County to start free-range organic wild boar farming. He poured his entire fortune into it. Advancing through trial and error, in...
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cnca: The quality of organic products in China remains stable, with the pass rate of certified organic products exceeding 95%.

    Xinhua News Agency reported from cnca on 28th January that the results of the random supervision and inspection of organic product certification carried out by certification regulatory authorities nationwide last year show that the majority of certification bodies and certified enterprises are able to carry out certification and production in accordance with relevant certification systems and standards...
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Buying New Year goods: Watch out for “green and organic foods” past their use-by dates

In a large supermarket, law enforcement officers from the Shenyang City Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau explained to reporters how to identify organic food labels. A bag of ordinary rice had four different labels printed on the packaging. Ordinary consumers would find it very difficult to understand their meanings, let alone choose the one with the best value for money...
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Major food safety risks, experts suggest eating organic food where possible

Food safety issues are increasingly arousing public concern. According to a recent survey by Tsinghua University, food safety surpassed social security and medical safety in 2010 to become the security issue of most concern to the public this year. In other words, the public has become increasingly uneasy about food safety. Organic food online supermarket...
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General Secretary Hu inspects organic vegetable production enterprise

    “The ”veggie basket" is closely linked with people's lives. Recently, ensuring the supply of vegetables and stabilising vegetable prices has become a common concern among the general public. Bearing this issue in mind, General Secretary Hu Jintao came to Beijing Jinfu Yinong Agricultural Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. ...
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With the approach of the two festivals, Lidao and organic food gift boxes are quietly selling well.

    With the two upcoming festivals approaching, many gift counters have seen a peak in customer traffic. At present, a variety of organic and ecological gifts are gradually becoming the top choice for people giving gifts during the festival. Yesterday, reporters at the Jinyuan New Yansha Mall saw at a gift counter called "Lidaohe" that the gift exhibition area was swarming with people all around...
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4th Organic Product Certification Technology Forum: New standards are about to be released, and certification will be even stricter!

From 16 to 18 December 2010, cnca held the Fourth Organic Product Certification Technical Forum in Hangzhou. The conference mainly focused on two topics: First, interpreting the newly revised national standard for "Organic Products"; introducing the "Measures for the Administration of Organic Product Certification" and the "Implementation Rules for Organic Product Certification...".
FOFCC news

FOFCC inspectors visited Brazil to inspect Native's organic sugar project, successfully filling a domestic gap

    In late November 2010, FOFCC sent inspectors to Brazil to conduct a inspection audit on Native's organic sugarcane cultivation and organic sugar processing certification project. The inspection lasted for 7 days and successfully completed the evaluation of its farm and processing plant...
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Measures for the Administration of National Food Safety Standards to be implemented from 1 December

    From December 1st, the Administrative Measures for National Food Safety Standards will come into effect. Any citizen, legal person, or other organisation may submit proposals for the initiation of national food safety standards, and may also raise concerns regarding issues encountered during the implementation of the standards...
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Breastfeeding + organic baby formula protects children from “safety crises”

Regardless of how the “hormone gate” triggered by the “precocious puberty gate” ends, it is an indisputable fact that the intake of synthetic hormones leads to precocious puberty in infants and young children, and the cases of early maturation continuously reported from various places have heightened parents' anxiety; how to keep children away from precocious puberty has become the issue parents care about most. According to Shanghai Fudan...
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Promoting straw bioreactor technology to boost incomes

    In order to further increase the economic output value of facility agriculture, focusing on the production of high-quality, premium and safe vegetables, Liaoyang Dengta City has vigorously introduced advanced production technologies and pioneered the promotion of a new greenhouse cultivation technique across the city: the straw biological reactor. This technology...
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Shandong Province's first organic agricultural products quality supervision and inspection centre has gained accreditation and officially commenced operations

Recently, the Feicheng Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau, relying on the Feicheng Product Quality Inspection Institute, established the Shandong Provincial Organic Agricultural Products Quality Supervision and Inspection Centre. It successfully obtained the metrological certification and legally authorised laboratory qualification accreditation certificates issued by the Shandong Provincial Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision, enabling it to conduct external inspection operations. The Shandong Provincial Organic Agricultural Products Quality Supervision...
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South Korea revises organic certification body accreditation standards

On 27 September, the South Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs issued a notice regarding amendments to the organic certification body accreditation system under its current Environment-Friendly Agriculture Promotion Act (EFAFA) and Food Industry Promotion Act (FIPA). The revised contents published in the notice include...