meeting in support of the recommendation set forth by the NOSB’s
Certification, Accreditation and Compliance Committee.
Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps manufactures and sells personal care and cosmetics products including
top-selling natural brand of liquid and bar soap.. The company also
manufactures and sells lotions, hair rinses, shaving gels and balms.
All Dr. Bronner’s soap and personal care products are labeled as “Made
with Organic Oils” or outright as “Organic”, and that labeling complies
with the National Organic Program (NOP) criteria for labeling a product
as such. All main cleansing and moisturizing ingredients are derived
from organic agriculture, grown without synthetic pesticides and
fertilizers. By contrast, many so-called “Organic” personal care
products and brands in the market today, include only organic herbal
infusions for an organic veneer, but the main cleansing and
moisturizing ingredients are not made from certified organic material,
but rather conventional agricultural and petrochemical material.
In his submitted comments to the NOSB,
and other companies dedicated to the truthful labeling of organic
personal care products has been in the vanguard of efforts to prevent
the deception of consumers through misleading labeling of
cosmetic/personal care products using the term “Organic.”
Unfortunately, such misleading labeling has become a significant
problem, because USDA has not made the National Organic Program
standards mandatory for the labeling of personal care products…The
current regulatory regime fails to protect consumers from misleading
and deceptive labeling as “Organic” because compliance with the
National Organic Program is voluntary,” explains Bronner. “Dr.
Bronner’s strongly believes that the best and most effective way to
protect consumers of organic personal care products is for the USDA to
re-interpret the scope of it’s own authority and to make the National
Organic Program (NOP) standards mandatory.”
Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps strongly supports the recommendation set
forth by the NOSB’s Certification, Accreditation and Compliance
Committee (CCAC), to make the NOP standards mandatory for
cosmetic/personal care products by including that class of products in
relevant NOP regulations. Dr. Bronner’s believes that only by making
the NOP rules mandatory can consumers be adequately protected from the
misleading deceptive practices currently prevalent in the marketplace.
For further information on Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, please visit:
www.drbronner.com
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