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The Organic Trade Association (OTA) announced the launch of its fraud prevention program earlier this month. OTA members can apply to pre-enroll in the program as full enrollment includes multiple steps. Work to develop a fraud prevention program for members of the organic industry started several years ago following reports of the sales of imported feed grains that had fraudulently been labeled as organic ingredients, said Gwendolyn Wyard, VP of regulatory and technical affairs with the OTA. “ The program takes nine steps – the last one is enrollment |