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		<title>NIAB and TAG merger</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/11/05/niab-and-tag-merger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re not sure how it happened, but some of us here missed the news that the National Institute of Agricultural Botany and The Arable Group had merged.
So, given that we missed the announcement last month, we thought it worthy of a mention here for anyone else who was too engrossed elsewhere to pick up on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FSA shrugs off French organic study</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/09/18/fsa-shrugs-off-french-organic-study/</link>
		<comments>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/09/18/fsa-shrugs-off-french-organic-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhat strangely, the Food Standards Agency has felt the need to publicly dismiss the findings of a French study that called into question its own recently published and controversial report.
The FSA-funded research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine made the claim that organic food was no more nutritious than non-organic. This has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organic milk positives crop up again&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/09/17/organic-milk-positives-crop-up-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/09/17/organic-milk-positives-crop-up-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a short number of years now since the first evidence appeared linking organic milk to measurable health benefits. Bits and pieces of studies have continued to trickle out since then, all pointing to positives.
Today we&#8217;ve come across a piece in Scotland&#8217;s Daily Record newspaper that, in essence, suggests more of the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French find what FSA missed?</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/09/10/french-find-what-fsa-missed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/09/10/french-find-what-fsa-missed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Denis Lairon]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/?p=664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an interesting study on organic food, including nutrition, that seems to run counter to the report published a few weeks ago on behalf of the Food Standards Agency.
The French Agency for Food Safety (AFSSA) begs to differ with the findings that proved so controversial in this country.
You can view the report, led by Denis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s not make it personal</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/08/06/lets-not-make-it-personal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/08/06/lets-not-make-it-personal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Independent today covers a very disappointing angle to the controversy surrounding the FSA organic report story.
I suppose we shouldn&#8217;t be overly surprised, but it seems that the report&#8217;s author, Dr Alan Dangour, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical    Medicine, has been inundated with abusive emails and messages.
While we&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US scientists take a pop at FSA research</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/08/05/us-scientists-take-a-pop-at-fsa-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/08/05/us-scientists-take-a-pop-at-fsa-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Organic Centre]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We will get off this topic soon &#8211; probably. But having just come across this article from The Organic Centre, in the US, it seemed to be well worth sharing. It appears to be the most scientific and thorough assessment of the controversial FSA-funded report by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lot of noise, not a lot of sense</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/08/05/a-lot-of-noise-not-a-lot-of-sense/</link>
		<comments>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/08/05/a-lot-of-noise-not-a-lot-of-sense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/?p=615</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The din around last week&#8217;s FSA report on nutrition and organic food is almost deafening. Someone from every media outlet seems to be having their say on it, whether or not they have the faintest clue what they&#8217;re talking about.
Some (and you know who you are, because we&#8217;ve talked or emailed directly on the topic) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FSA report bashes organics &#8211; again</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/07/29/fsa-report-bashes-organics-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/07/29/fsa-report-bashes-organics-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again the Food Standards Agency has managed to garner a boat load of silly season headlines for a report on organic food that tells us little but is likely to damage sales.
&#8220;No additional health benefits of organic food&#8221; is the gist of the coverage of this latest publication by the FSA. It&#8217;s the kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OF&amp;G at Cereals 09</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/06/11/ofg-at-cereals-09/</link>
		<comments>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/06/11/ofg-at-cereals-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our roving Development Officer, Steven Jacobs, has sent back a couple of images from his time at Cereals 09 to share with us all.
He says that tea, biscuits and chat are the largely the order of the day on our stand:

Organic cereals are high on our agenda at the moment, with our National Organic Cereals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buy organic bread and save the planet</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/06/04/buy-organic-bread-and-save-the-planet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/06/04/buy-organic-bread-and-save-the-planet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New research suggests that the production of organic bread results in 25 per cent lower CO2 emissions than its non-organic counterpart.
We like this kind of thing, not just because it&#8217;s good for the promotion of organic food, but because any credible scientific study that gives us hard data to back up what we believe to [...]]]></description>
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