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Goodness of organic food harmed by processing

2 February 2005

Is organic food better for you? It may come certified as pesticide or herbicide-free, grown without a trace of any modified genes or reared on a free-range farm, but processed organic food is just as likely to contain excessive levels of fat, salt and sugar as its non-organic counterparts.

The organic food industry is worried this will give ammunition to its critics. So to head them off, the guardians of organic food standards in the UK, the processing standards committee of the Soil Association in London, last week proposed setting limits on how much fat, sugar and salt could be…

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