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EU introduces a new logo for organic food

Monday, 3 March, 2008
By Simon Leufstedt

The European Union has introduced a new logo for organic food. The new logo will be obligatory in 2009 for all organic products sold within the European Union member states. But you can already see the new labelling on organic products.

It’s up to individual EU countries to decide if the new logo will be accompanied by national organic logos, such as the Swedish organic labelling KRAV.

Mariann Fischer Boel, EU Agriculture Commissioner, said that “this is an excellent agreement which will help consumers to recognize organic products throughout the EU more easily and give them assurances of precisely what they are buying.”

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Simon Leufstedt is the editor of Green Blog. Simon has previously studied Global Environmental Justice and is currently studying Human Ecology and Political Science at Lund University in Sweden. Simon is also blogging over at the Swedish 350 website and working with the Swedish TckTckTck organisation. You can follow Simon on Twitter and on Google+.
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http://www.newdiet.ca jasmine

This was a really interesting article on organic food logos! What is the purpose for the new logos?
http://www.green-blog.org Simon

jasmine: The new logo is expected to make it easier for customers to find organic products and hopefully increase organic sales.
http://www.red23.co.uk/ Shazia

The article have beautiful logo for organic food. Logo is the simble of this blog.

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