Imported Organics Meet US Standards

What about organic produce imported from overseas, if domestic organic produce might not meet federal standards? That must undoubtedly undergo inspection before entering the nation. 40% of the organic maize crop and up to 70% of the organic soybean crop are imported. A huge cargo of 36 million pounds of organic soybeans from the Ukraine was examined by The Washington Post in 2017.

They were not at all organic. Organic fraud is thought to cost hundreds of millions of dollars annually and is particularly difficult to detect if the country of origin declares the product to be organic. Testing is required to ascertain the opposite, and that costs time and money.