Eco soundings 
John Vidal
Guardian

Wednesday September 13, 2000


With one voice

Sir John Krebs, chairman of the government's Food Standards 
Agency, made few new friends recently when his organisation's 
report claimed there was little nutritional difference between 
organic and conventionally-grown food. Dr Patrick Wall, chief 
executive of his Irish counterpart agency, the Food Safety 
Authority of Ireland, has now reminded people to buy organic 
food because it is "more environmentally friendly, more wholesome, 
and better produced". He then dismissed Sir John's views as "extreme".