Friday, July 25, 2008

Critical Report on Claims of Organic Food's Nutritional Superiority

A report by Dr. Joseph Rosen from Rutgers University, US, was published this week by the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) entitled "Claims of Organic Food's Nutritional Superiority: a Critical Review." Dr. Rosen analyzed a pro-organic report by Charles Benbrook and colleagues at the Organic Trade Association's Organic Center and found the data had been selectively chosen and presented to "prove" the desired point. When Dr. Rosen recalculated some of the organic data, correcting inaccuracies, he concluded that the conventional products were actually 2% more nutritious than the organic varieties. The complete report is available at: http://www.acsh.org/docLib/20080721_claims_of_organic_foods.pdf.