EU: Call goes out for organic review
By: Keith Nuthall | 24 February 2009
The EU's agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has backed a review of the bloc's plan to promote environmentally-friendly food production.
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The EU's agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has backed a review of the bloc's plan to promote environmentally-friendly food production.
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