All One God Faith, Inc. v. Organic & Sustainable Industry Standards, Inc.

Opinion

BRUINIERS, J.

The federal government imposes mandatory standards governing the marketing of “organic” food and agricultural products, but provides only voluntary and permissive criteria for “organic” personal care products, such as soaps and lotions. (7 U.S.C. § 6501 et seq.; Organic Foods Production Act of 1990.) A trade association, Organic and Sustainable Industry Standards, Inc. (OASIS), seeks to develop a standard that would provide a definition of “organic” specific to beauty and personal care products *1192and would permit its members whose products meet this standard to advertise…