Ripple Effect of India’s Organic Cotton Scandal
source: http://www.greenwala.com/community/blogs/all/4490-Ripple-Effect-of-India-s-Organic-Cotton-Sc...
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With not only H&M and organic certifier EcoCert caught in an unprecedented organic cotton scandal, courtesy of "organic cotton" suppliers from India, retailers worldwide can't help but brace for their own industry-altering aftermath.
According to Ecotextile News, Lothar Kruse, a director of the independent testing laboratory Impetus in Bremerhaven, Germany examined the cotton fabrics that came from Indian farms and claimed roughly "30% of the tested samples" contained genetically modified (GM) cotton.
The head of the Indian agricultural authority Apeda, Sanjay Dave, told the newspaper they were dealing with fraud on "a gigantic scale."
Organic Exchange, an organization committed to expanding organic agriculture, is releasing figures any day regarding how much so-called organic cotton India has produced on an international level for retail.
Current figures provided by them include 61% of the total amount of organic cotton produced worldwide in 2008-2009 were from them, with some 107,000 tons of fiber out of the total 175,113 tons grown worldwide.
More at link.
According to Ecotextile News, Lothar Kruse, a director of the independent testing laboratory Impetus in Bremerhaven, Germany examined the cotton fabrics that came from Indian farms and claimed roughly "30% of the tested samples" contained genetically modified (GM) cotton.
The head of the Indian agricultural authority Apeda, Sanjay Dave, told the newspaper they were dealing with fraud on "a gigantic scale."
Organic Exchange, an organization committed to expanding organic agriculture, is releasing figures any day regarding how much so-called organic cotton India has produced on an international level for retail.
Current figures provided by them include 61% of the total amount of organic cotton produced worldwide in 2008-2009 were from them, with some 107,000 tons of fiber out of the total 175,113 tons grown worldwide.
More at link.
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covelogibbs
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Bummer, I try to support organic cotton farmers whenever I can and I hope I'm not throwing my money away.
- 2 years ago
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covelogibbs
