Kathleen
Merrigan, deputy secretary at the Agriculture Department, sat down
with The Washington Post to discuss the agency's eight-year-old National
Organics Program and the challenges ahead for the organics market,
which is growing as much as 20 percent a year. In an investigation
published last year, The Post pointed to several problems in the
program, including the agency's failure to discipline violators and to
properly test products labeled organic. The USDA's inspector general
issued a report last month identifying the same problems and calling for
changes.
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