National Organic Standards Board Sets Fall Meeting

Aug. 31, 2023

Registration is required to comment in person or in writing; meeting will be Oct. 24-26.

Registration is now open for the written and live public comment periods for the National Organic Standards Board’s (NOSB) fall meeting, to be held Oct. 24-26 in Providence, R.I.

The NOSB typically meets twice per year in various locations around the U.S. The meeting is also broadcast live. This time, the board will discuss substances petitioned for addition to or deletion from the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances, substances due to sunset from the National List in 2025, and recommendations on organic policies.

Meeting materials are now available online. If you want to make live or written comments, you must register. Deadline for both written comments and requests for oral comment speaking slots must be received by 11:59 p.m. ET on Sept. 28.

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Dave Fusaro has served as editor in chief of Food Processing magazine since 2003. Dave has 30 years experience in food & beverage industry journalism and has won several national ASBPE writing awards for his Food Processing stories. Dave has been interviewed on CNN, quoted in national newspapers and he authored a 200-page market research report on the milk industry. Formerly an award-winning newspaper reporter who specialized in business writing, he holds a BA in journalism from Marquette University. Prior to joining Food Processing, Dave was Editor-In-Chief of Dairy Foods and was Managing Editor of Prepared Foods.