The credibility of a standard is down solely to the means its administrator has of verifying it. Regarding the organic standard, while laboratory techniques can determine the presence of synthetic pesticide residue on food products, the same cannot be said for the plant fertilising mode. For the banana, CIRAD is currently developing a detection technique which will eventually be able to say whether the producer has used synthetic mineral fertilisers, a type of plant nutrition prohibited in the organic segment. Here, FruiTrop provides a preview.
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