Organic Food Struggling for Identity | Business
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A carrot is an unlikely villain for a horror story, but for retailers promoting organic food here, a sweaty package of cut up orange-colored roots can have sinister implications.
Viktor Semyonov, founder and chairman of the Belaya Dacha agricultural holding and former State Duma deputy, told a harrowing story of migrant workers, free of sanitation checks, sitting on their knees in basements and putting carrots into packages labeled “ecologically friendly.”
There is still no official definition of “organic food” in Russia. This lapse in regulation is putting some local producers at a disadvantage, since they find it hard to compete with unscrupulous rivals who take advantage of the loophole.
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