by Anthony C Dweck BCs CChem, FRCS FLS FRSPHConsultant on Natural Products to the Cosmetic and Pharmaceutical Industry in U.K.

Controversy about Certified Organics

Organic is almost perceived by marketers as being a legal term or condition, but it is not. The law has not found time to even describe what is natural let alone what is organic. Anybody can issue a certificate that says it is organic and charge for a logo

The future of this organic trend lies in the foundations of the certification bodies. It is hugely disappointing that organizations seen as being “the pioneers of safety and natural” have banned parabens, which are not only found in nature but have been completely vindicated as safe by yet another comprehensive review.

However, all certifying organic bodies still allow the synthetic preservative phenoxyethanol that even the good Lord himself would not recognize since it is in none of his flora.

Certified Organic” has to be based on truth and honesty.

Water that falls out of the sky is not organic, but water that has been used to make steam and passed over a lot of flower petals and then condensed is organic; so distilled water must be organic – sadly it is not.

We all know that some oil-bearing plants produce butters and I have found over 200 oil bearing plants with some of them not being oils but butter because of their fatty acid profiles. Imagine the surprise when an oil plant suddenly appeared on the market as a butter. Twenty years of research into the composition of these oily materials wiped out in an instance, how could we have missed four butters? They had to be genuine because they were certified organic.

It was then that came the moment of shock. The supplier had taken out some of the oil, hydrogenated it and then returned it back to the oil in order to make a butter. Since when was the process of hydrogenation “organic”? If rain is not organic then how on earth can the process of hydrogenation be organic?

When the foundations are compromised the house falls down. If there is to be a future in “organic” then they need to review the things that are very badly wrong.

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