The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service is hosting
an April 27-30, 2015, public meeting of the National Organic Standards Board
(NOSB) in La Jolla, California. The event will serve as NOSB’s final review of
substances with sunset dates in 2016, and sessions will include those covering
reports from the Materials, Livestock, Crops and Handling subcommittees. The
tentative agenda, relevant proposals and information about the comment
submission and meeting registration process are available here; the deadline
for submitting written comments or registering to make oral comments at the
meeting is April 7. See Federal Register, March 12, 2015.

 

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