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Brussels wants to tighten regulations on organic products

Anything called 'organic' will now also have to be in 'organic' packaging in Europe from now on. The European Commission wants to tighten the regulations surrounding organic products. They want to make organic products more reliable and check them more, states the German website Proplanta.de report.

Stricter regulations and checks should make sure that organic products are actually organic. EU agricultural commissioner Dacian Ciolos presented a suitable adjustment of the European organic regulations in Brussels last Tuesday. The plans now need the approval of the European Parliament and the EU member states.

In the market "the temptation to respond to the increased demand with deception is strong", Ciolos said last Monday during a meeting with the EU agricultural ministers. This needs to stop: "We have to strengthen the consumer's faith," says Ciolos.