This paper argues that the current European Union and United
States regulations concerning organic imports do not provide adequate
safeguards against organic fraud, and that the recently implemented EU
regulation requiring an electronic certificate of inspection1
and newly
proposed legislation in the United States for the “modernization and
improvement of [organic] international trade technology systems,”2
will
not provide those adequate safeguards. This paper will compare and
contrast the EU and U.S. third-country organic certification schemes,
their import procedures, the gaps in regulatory coverage that allow fraud
to occur in both markets, and how the proposed solutions to cover these
gaps are inadequate.
