{"id":4212,"date":"2009-09-15T23:01:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T03:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/?p=4212"},"modified":"2009-09-16T18:44:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T22:44:29","slug":"holy-cow-this-cleaning-product-is-not-organic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/09\/15\/4212\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Cow, This Cleaning Product Is Not Organic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nikolasschiller.com\/images\/not_organic_cleaning_product1.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nikolasschiller.com\/images\/usda_organic_logo.png\" align=\"right\" height=\"100\"\/>I was at a friends house two weeks ago and snapped these two photos when I was in their bathroom.  I was intrigued because after my first glance at the bottle I thought the circular logo <i>was<\/i> from the USDA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.usda.gov\/AMSv1.0\/NOP\">National Organic Program<\/a>.  Upon closer inspection, I realized that the designers of the product used a similar design in order to give the appearance that it was organic&#8211; specifically the use of boldface type for USDA within a circle.  I wonder if people purchasing the product thought it was organic?  Or if they might have equated the official organic seal with &#8220;Meets USDA Food And Safety Standards&#8221; like I did?  No matter what, due to the popularity of the organic products and the USDA Organic Seal, I except to see similar uses of this type of deceitful labeling on other products.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nikolasschiller.com\/images\/not_organic_cleaning_product2.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a friends house two weeks ago and snapped these two photos when I was in their bathroom. I was intrigued because after my first glance at the bottle I thought the circular logo was from the USDA&#8217;s National Organic Program. Upon closer inspection, I realized that the designers of the product used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364,18],"tags":[3040,5672,3041,3042,3036,3038,601,3039,3043,3037],"class_list":["post-4212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-green","tag-deceit","tag-green","tag-holy-cow","tag-label","tag-logo","tag-national-organic-program","tag-organic","tag-packaging","tag-product","tag-usda"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":890,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4228,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions\/4228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}