EU unifies rules for organic food labelling

Mass catering operations are excluded from the new rules although countries can choose to apply national rules if they wish.

 EU ministers ended 18 months of squabbling over new rules
for organic farming and came up with a labelling system aimed at informing
consumers better on what they are buying.

In the future farmers who sell produce containing at least
95 percent organic ingredients will use a special EU logo, along with a label
to indicate the product's origin. Below that, there will be labelling of the
organic ingredients present. The labels can be accompanied by national and
private logos, at the discretion of individual EU countries, officials said.