In the December 16, 2015, Federal Register, USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service ("AMS") issued a proposed rule that would address recommendations submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture by the National Organic Standards Board ("NOSB") following their April 2015 meeting. These recommendations pertain to the 2016 Sunset Review of substances on the USDA's National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances ("National List"). Consistent with the recommendations from the NOSB, this proposed rule would remove five nonorganic nonagricultural substances from the National List for use in organic handling: (i) egg white lysozyme, (ii) cyclohexylamine, (iii) diethylaminoethanol, (iv) octadecylamine, and (v) tetrasodium pyrophosphate. Comments are due February 16, 2016.
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