As a portent of the imminent rollout of the Strengthening Organic Enforcement Act (SOE), a Minnesota farmer was sentenced to three years in federal prison for fraudulently selling organic grain to a buyer in Pennsylvania. The defendant pleaded guilty in May and was sentenced in December.
The fraudulent scheme to market GMO grain as organic was uncovered because of a consolidation of a merchandiser where the defendant purchased conventional grain to be sold as certified organic. It isn’t clear how this case would have transpired under the auspices of the SOE.
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