Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 October 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body

10:00 am

Mr. Michael Lambert:

Bord Bia is the marketing arm. These are two separate issues.

Yesterday there was a seminar in Athlone where they had all the buyers and they had people in from France and other locations. They were trying to give opportunities so that people would be able to go and sell their produce. The problem is that Bord Bia has removed the organic symbol from the products. Now they have brought in this one emblem - "Origin Green". A product is stamped with "Origin Green" and it might be organic or it might not. Bord Bia is selling the two kinds of produce under the one label.

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