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The Organic Center Challenges New Study Results; Defends the Nutritional Superiority of Organic Foods

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Posted in Organics | Tagged Organics

An advance copy of a study appeared yesterday that will be published in the September edition of the American Journal of Clinical Research. The published paper, “Nutritional quality of organic foods: a systematic review,” was written by a team led by Alan Dangour at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The study, commissioned by the U.K. Food Standards Agency (FSA), claims that there are no differences in nutritional quality between conventional and organic foods.

The Organic Center’s chief scientist, Dr. Chuck Benbrook, along with Dr. Don Davis and Dr. Preston Andrews, have written a strong response questioning the methodology and challenging the findings of this study, and we wanted to let you know where you can access it, as you may be responding to media and other inquiries, or seeing articles in this regard. Click here to see Dr. Benbrook’s full response to this controversial study:

http://www.organic-center.org/science.nutri.php?action=view&report_id=157

Thank you,

Steve Hoffman, Managing Director