[compost_tea] Re: Re: CTTF Report - Tests
Duh, I meant to say: NOT using all additives in prior tests should [insert
NOT] trigger new tests. IOW said same, just want to be clear.
Think I made a similar missing-negative mistake the other day, trust I
didn't confuse anyone.
(This NOP spaghetti stuff is mind-boggling...)
CTTF, by the way, is a task force (committee) under NOSB's Crops Committee.
NOP is the group of federal regulators within USDA, who manage/do the
program. NOSB (thus CTTF) is an advisory board whose recommendations go to
USDA/NOP, who can decide if they are acceptable or if they want to, edit
them (as with prior CTF), apparently. In either event, NOSB reports and
recommendations need eventually to be approved by the Secretary of
Agriculture to become part of The Final Rule (drum roll and trumpets here...
and always spoken in a resonant voice...:) or the National List.(wherein I
would insert "furps" as my mom used to call them.:)
Kirk
CTTF = Compost Tea Task Force (2003-2004)
CTF = Compost Task Force (2001?-2002)
NOSB = National Organic Standards Board (since about 1994?)
NOP = National Organic Program, a small number of people under the
Agricultural Marketing Service of the USDA - United States Department of
Aggrandizement.., uh, no .. Agriculture, pardon me (early 20th century?)
NOP was authorized by OFPA, the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990. I
think it actually was established shortly before NOSB. (Took Congress
several years to figure out USDA wasn't really interested in funding NOP and
that they needed to be specific about that.)
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