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AMS Adds Water Treatment, Tobacco Sucker Control to National Organic List

The Agricultural Marketing Service is amending its National List of substances allowed and prohibited in organic products, it said in a notice released March 22. The final rule allows potassium hypochlorite to treat irrigation water used in organic crop production…

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and fatty alcohols for sucker control in organic tobacco production, AMS said. It also removes the listing for dairy cultures, as it is "redundant with an existing listing,” AMS said. The changes take effect April 22.