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After seven years of a long struggle between consumers and organic farmers and the USDA, the first of a handful of dairies on an industrial scale, produce, what has been said, bio-milk, was arrested by the regulatory authorities. It was announced today by a watchdog group’s organic industry, a cow feedlot dairy-10000, near Fresno in central California, it was found that the organization outside the law and its certificate produce organic milk suspended.

The Cornucopia Institute, a farm policy research group based in Wisconsin, the organic industry as a watchdog, announced that the case Vander Eyk Jr. Dairy in Pixley, California, was forced to suspend sales of organic milk. In the spring of 2005, Cornucopia records of the first in a series of formal legal complaints with the USDA against large operators of the factory farm, which Vander Eyk, says that mammoths “manufactured animals” has been violated l ’spirit and letter of the law, animals ball-point pen and halls instead of grazing.

“This is a great victory for families of farmers across the country, work is difficult to establish, milk and dairy products, high ethical standards,” said Mark Kastel, Senior Analyst Cornucopia’s agricultural policy . “Scofflaws, like Vander Eyk dairy, the local family farmers, respect for law and expectations of their customers, a competitive disadvantage.”

According to the authorities to state regulation of the dairy has lost its capacity vessels organic milk last month, after receiving a notification of the suspension of its USDA-accredited agency, Quality Assurance International (QAI), serious issues around record keeping, how is ensured, that cows are actually managed organic (without antibiotics and hormones), fed feed ecological product (without toxic pesticides and herbicides), and no review Rather than in a feedlot.

“The foundation of the whole system for organic farming is the ability of a certifying body careful consideration of the farm according to the records to ensure that all agricultural production, animal husbandry practice, and out ways to organic production requirements of the law, “said Kastel. The dairy Vander Eyk is a mistake, not only in size but also because it is a “split” deals with both organic and conventional operation of cattle in the same annex. “Even if not expressly prohibited by law, most dairy bio-Distributors prohibit operations Split and require their farms to 100% organic.” Split operations leave a lot of opportunity for errors or fraud, “Kastel said.

QAI has been widely criticized in the organic industry for certifying Vander Eyk and a number of other large industrial dairies in the desertlike conditions across the west, where cattle have little, if everyone access to pastures. The Cornucopia Institute is also entitled to file complaints against dairies in possession of Dean Foods (Horizon Organics), the 8000 has a head dairy in Idaho, and Aurora organic dairy products, milking cows of thousands of people in Texas and Colorado, production “Private Label” milk to the grocery store, including chains Wild Oats, Trader Joe’s, Safeway and Wal-Mart. Until recently, Dean Foods, the leader, was purchasing some of its bio-milk Vander Eyk.