Organic olive oil, EU law and Proposition 37

On July 1, 2012 it became mandatory for certified organic packaged food produced in the EU to bear the EU organic logo, while last week a study from Stanford University claimed that organic foods are no different from other foods because their nutritional value is no greater. This is the mirror image of the biotech industry’s claim (some might call it the dark side) that foods containing genetically modified organisms need no labeling because they are nutritionally the same as non-gmo food. California voters will soon show who they believe by passing or rejecting Proposition 37.