Dear organic industry leader,

We understand one of your employees is serving a five-year term on the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). Thank you for making them available and, presumably, helping underwrite the cost of their participation. This is an important contribution to the organic community.

In the past, some NOSB members have widely been viewed as establishing voting records legally undermining the Organic Foods Production Act and/or the USDA regulations governing organics. Others have betrayed the spirit of the law.

I want you to know that I take the behavior, and voting records, of all NOSB members seriously and will carefully monitor the proceedings going forward. Through my patronage, and consumer activism, I will make sure all marketplace participants, consumers and all other parties throughout the supply chain, are aware of any individuals, and their affiliations, who damage the integrity of the organic label, something I hold in high esteem.

The undersigned,