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Do you believe the current regulation allows to guarantee the quality of organic fertilizers on the market ?

« As a rule I would agree to it, given my involvement within several standardisation boards. As a matter of fact, we’ve been working through our professional Unions UNIFA (fertilizers) and UJP (organic amendment) to develop a national regulation (AFNOR) and a European certification (EC) guaranteeing the transparency and readability of all our product offers to consumers. A lot of standards on fertilizers have been revisited in the last ten years following the dramatic events that had stricken the world of agriculture (nitrates in soils, mad cow, bird flu, CO2 emissions…). However, there has been tight pressure from urban waste recycling companies that will not be unwilling to « greenwash » their product offers. It is of paramount importance to single out our traditionally original products whose traceability is guaranteed free from household waste composts, sludge from recycling units or from green waste, whose composition is random and very heterogeneous. Those are likely to contain a multitude of chemical pollutants, more or less easily detectable in heavy metals (lead, chrome, cadmium…), persistent organic pollutants and bio-accumulators (PBC, Hormones, pesticides…). The evolution of the current legislation makes it possible thanks to the compulsory label information to visualise the origin of the fertilizer components as long as the manufacturer complies with the regulations ».
Maurice VIEL, Head of R&D, Doctor in Agronomy with Groupe Frayssinet

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