organo-fraud
Just a quick bit of organic news this time:
Marc O Mahony, proprioter of a place that calls itself "The Organic Shop" in the English Market, Cork, and indeed 2 other outlets, was fined �2,000 (plus �400 costs) and convicted of selling non-organic chicken as organic. He was visited by the department inspectors in Dec last year.


Stuff u might not know about this case:

• Marc O Mahony lost his organic processor/retail license 3 years ago. He was certified by IOFGA, the Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association. You don't need your shop to be certified to use a name like "The Organic Shop"it seems
  

• One of his shops ,also trading under the "Organic Shop" monkier was in the property section of the Irish Examiner a few months back for �903,000
• there is only _one_ certified organic retail outlet in Ireland...golden goose in the Limerick Milk Market, run by a couple called Elmer and Pheonix...personally, I'd trust them 100%
  
• in cases similiar to O Mahony's in the UK, shops have had to change their names....e.g. "Organic World" proprietor Stephen Sains.