URGENT! Please take time right now to read this important information regarding an upcoming, long-anticipated event—a joint Federal Trade Commission and USDA Roundtable investigation (in October) surrounding the issue of personal care fraud and a request for YOUR opinion— your golden opportunity to speak out against organic fraud in the personal care marketplace. You now have a chance to help correct some of the wrongs that have been directed to you and that have been done against you, your family and friends and our organic community in the name of billions in profits taken from you by unethical outlaw companies—the organic cheaters.

One simply has to walk down the personal care aisles of just about any store—or look at any one of thousands of websites—and randomly pick up any “natural” or “organic” personal care product and you will see many synthetic chemical ingredients. Unfortunately for you, it is well-known in the personal care industry that there is no legal definition of the word "natural." Armed with this knowledge, predatory manufacturers and greedy, unethical retailers peddle their chemical products using the words natural and organic because they have found that there are no repercussions for them, rather, if they cheat you, they realize huge monetary rewards.

Most people have no idea that the government has, strangely, refused to cite, indict or fine manufacturers or retailers for misrepresenting chemical ingredients and largely synthetic chemical personal care products as "organic." It is especially bizarre that, even with much notable identification of such organic labeling fraud and:

•    USDA federal regulations defining the word "organic" and the legal and illegal use of the word organic on product labels and in marketing/promotional materials

•    FDA policy statement that requires personal care product companies "must comply with USDA regulations for the organic claim" if they refer to or imply that their products are organic via product labeling

•    Lanham Act—under FTC purview—a federal law designed to protect consumers and businesses from false advertising and unfair c ompetition

…that neither the USDA, the FDA or the FTC have not engaged in any serious effort to protect consumers from widespread phony organic personal care product labeling claims since the National Organic Program law was passed in 2002.  Until now.