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AMS Adds Thickener, Paper-Based Crop Planting Aids 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 in the Nov. 14 Federal Register. The final rule allows low-acyl gellan gum, a food additive used as…

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a thickener, gelling agent and stabilizer, as an ingredient in processed organic products. It also allows paper-based crop planting aids for organic crop production, and replaces the term “wood resin” on the National List with the term “wood rosin” to reflect the popular spelling of the substance. The changes take effect Dec. 14.