3:36PM
USDA Lowers Bar for New 'Biobased' Product Label
Friday, January 21, 2011 at 03:36PM 
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...When it comes to certifying lip balms, household cleaners or any other product as "USDA certified biobased," the agency will mandate that only 25 percent of the item derive from renewable materials. The agency, in its initial proposals, had set that threshold at 51 percent, but nearly unified industrial opposition saw the agency lower its standards...
Read the full article by By PAUL VOOSEN of Greenwire in the New York Times