From an economic standpoint, all but the simplest natural additives may disqualify a product from "organic" status, potentially reducing the value of the yield.

All claims about the organic status of products sold in Australia are covered under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.

The step to full organic status on the whole estate was completed in 1996.

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Arthur Harvey, the blueberry farmer, persuaded a federal court in 2005 that some regulations on organic milk were too lax, including those governing how a dairy farmer can convert to organic status.

The results can already be found at many farmers' markets, though not many stallholders shout about it, preferring to trumpet their organic status (see www.farmersmarkets.net for a nationwide list).

Food imported into Britain by air is an "absolute catastrophe" and should be stripped of any right to organic status, campaigners have claimed.

She achieved full organic status in 2000, becoming the first organically produced Irish Cheddar cheese.

When potting medium has given its all, just dig it into the garden soil, including any perlite and vermiculite - they're natural minerals, so your garden won't lose its organic status.

However, the average size of organic farms was smaller than the previous year - mainly because of large hill farms in Scotland abandoning their organic status.