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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] corn gluten
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:25:11 -0500


On Jan 31, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Sharon and Steve wrote:

Could a person make and sell a product like corn bread with GMO corn and
meet organic specifications?

MAsteveINE

If you were selling the corn bread as "organic" or as "made with organic corn", no. GMO corn isn't acceptable in organic production, so bread made from such corn would not be considered "organic".

If other ingredients in the bread were organic, you could say that on the label; in what fashion you could say so depends on what total percentage of the ingredients (excluding water and salt, which don't count in determining percentages).

See section 205.300 through 205.310 of the USDA standards.

As far as using corn gluten in organically certified fields: The OMRI list of generic materials acceptable for organic production says that corn gluten, whether used as soil amendment or pesticide, "must not be derived from genetically modified corn". It's allowed as a soil amendment, restricted (permitted under some conditions) as a pesticide. (The word "pesticide", used in this sense, includes "herbicide".)

I expect it would be up to the certifier to decide what proof they would accept that a specific batch of gluten wasn't from GMO corn. If you're not certified but want to keep to the standards, I'd talk to the supplier.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



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