Walter,

USDA has cooperative agreements with other countries with regard to 
their respective "organic" certifications. For the countries that are 
included, it is simply a matter of "we'll accept yours if you accept 
ours." So USDA does not do any testing or even setting of criteria for 
what is labelled as "organic" from other countries.

Randall Austin

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