Re: [compost_tea] Re: USNOP & Ongoing Questions

From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. (lfl@intrex.net)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 16:29:49 EST


Kirk Leonard wrote:
> Jeff -- You're not the only one confused. As I said Monday, "there's no
> clear rule about compost teas today." NOP has not posted either the
> 10/19-20 meeting record or revised rule language, so we seem to be stuck in
> some kind of bureaucratic void at the moment. I have also heard that NOSB
> has not ruled to accept the compost task force recommendations, but what has
> been done remains a mystery. (Maybe we got through...?)
>
> Best things to do? Keep hunting for the last NOSB meeting "transcript"
> they're called, I think, keep checking "the rule" (at
> http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/NOP/standards/FullText.pdf, a 1.2MB file), talk
> to an NOSB member or someone on NOP staff, get a congressional contact to do
> that, go to DC and track it down? It sometimes takes months for NOP to
> update their site, so the latter thoughts seem more likely to shed some
> light sooner than later. Somebody pay my way to DC, I'll find out fast....
>
> So we just gotta keep looking and asking, I guess.

We could take up a collection. I'll donate $25.

LL
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L.F.London
lfl@intrex.net
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