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AMS Proposes Changes to National Organic List

The Agricultural Marketing Service is finalizing changes to its National List of substances allowed and prohibited in organic products, it said. The agency's final rule adds elemental sulfur for use as a molluscicide in organic crop production and polyoxin D zinc salt to control fungal diseases in organic crop production, and reclassifies magnesium chloride from an allowed synthetic to an allowed nonsynthetic ingredient in organic handling. The changes take effect Nov. 22.

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(Federal Register 10/23/19)