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Agriculture Deputy Secretary Merrigan to Host Media Conference Call to Announce First Companies Certified to Carry New USDA Biobased Label
WASHINGTON, March 30, 2011 – TOMORROW, March 31, Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan will host a national media conference call to announce the first companies certified to carry USDA’s new label to identify biobased products. Earlier in the day, Deputy Secretary Merrigan will unveil the products at a press conference in Ohio.
Biobased products are those composed wholly or significantly of agricultural ingredients – renewable plant, animal, marine, or forestry materials. This new label indicates that the product has been independently certified to meet USDA BioPreferred program standards for biobased content. Biobased products help add value to commodities and create jobs in rural communities. They can help increase U.S. energy independence by reducing the use of petroleum in manufactured products. They may also reduce the introduction of fossil carbon into the atmosphere, thus mitigating potential climate change impacts. More information about the BioPreferred program is available at www.biopreferred.gov.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
3:00 p.m. EST
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Agriculture Deputy Secretary Merrigan will hold a media conference call to discuss the implementation of USDA’s new product label on certified biobased products. |
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800-857-5233 Passcode: USDA (Given Verbally) Troubleshooting: 202-720-8560 All callers using the above pass code will be placed in listen only mode. To join the Q&A portion of the meeting, these callers are instructed to press *1 on their touch tone phone. |
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