Hey, folks!

The battle to save our organic standards from corporate takeover and to protect the integrity of the phrase "certified organic" is a boiling volcano that's about to erupt.  With your support, we have had a small victory in that we were finally able to persuade a subcommittee of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) to make a formal recommendation to the USDA to require personal care product companies that are making "organic" claims to have their products officially certified under the National Organic Program (as all organic foods, fibers, textiles and clothing are currently required to do).  This new NOSB recommendation is excellent news, but we're only half of the way there.  To bring this recommendation home to the USDA, we need your help.  If you have been waiting for something important to act upon, this is now the time for you to make your voice heard!  The fate of the organic label is resting in your lap and your participation is greatly needed now, more than ever.

Please help us to stop personal care product companies from labeling their synthetic chemical body care products as organic even though they're not!  Join with us in telling the USDA and the NOSB that we want the word "organic" -- whether it is used on foods, personal care, pet food products, dietary supplements, or clothing, textile or household products -- to mean that the product that uses the word "organic" or "organics" on its label is a genuine certified organic product that is in compliance with our National Organic Program regulations.

So friends, please take a minute to help preserve the integrity of the organic label and keep organic pure for yourself, your family, small family farms and small honest producers by signing on to the letter below and sending it to Kathleen Merrigan, Deputy Secretary of the USDA and Valerie Frances, Executive Director of the National Organic
Standards Board.  We only have a short window -- less than thirty days -- for  comments, so it's important to send your letter now.  Please also share this campaign page link with as many people as you can think of and ask them to send a letter, too! 

We greatly appreciate that you are taking a stand to protect the dignity of the organic label.

For additional information, here's a link to the powerful NOSB
recommendation:

http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5079488&;acct=nosb

Thanks so much for taking the time and making the effort to save the integrity of Organic!  You're our hero!