ASTA Comments on the USDA Definition of the Term Natural

ASTA issued comments to the National Organic Program in August 2005 and in response to the "National Organic Program, Sunset Review" notice, urging the National Organic Standards Board to renew the exemptions allowing the use of certain nonorganic items as ingredients in processed products labeled as “organic” or made with organic.

This document is an archived letter from June 2008 from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ASTA in response to ASTA's letter on correct labeling of paprika.