As sales of organic foods climb, some companies producing the foods are reducing their use of organic ingredients, without making the change obvious to consumers.
As sales of organic foods climb, some companies producing the foods are reducing their use of organic ingredients, without making the change obvious to consumers.
In the most recent case to come to light, many consumers across the country have been scooping Golden Temple granola from bulk bins and buying boxes of Peace Cereal thinking the products are made with mostly organic ingredients, when they haven’t been for years, according to an organic foods industry watchdog group.
Many stores still listed organic oats as a main ingredient on the labels for Golden Temple’s bulk granola and incorrectly identified Peace Cereal as organic in store signage, said Mark Kastel, co-founder of the Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin watchdog group that found widespread mislabeling of Golden Temple cereals at stores in several regions of the country.
Read more at the Register-Guard.
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