date:Apr 15, 2013
The National Organic Standards Board late Thursday rejected a petition to allow growers to use the antibiotic oxytetracyline beyond the existing expiration date of Oct. 21, 2014.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's labeling standards generally prohibit food from being certified organic if antibiotics were used during production. But the threat of fire blight - a bacterial pathogen that infects flowers and trees - led to an exception for growers of apples and pears.
That exception was revisite