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Friday, 12 October 2007 OAM Development Plan
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About Us

OAM stands for Organic Alliance Malaysia. It is a membership-based business association that seeks to promote and protect the organic industry in Malaysia. In short, we like everybody in Malaysia to think organic, grow organic and use organic.

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Newsflash

The Star Focus 18 Nov. 2007: What comes out of the farm may be something else
THAT deep green and crunchy organically grown vegetable sporting a shiny certification logo on its package comes with an assurance.

Loke Siew Foong with a selection of organic foods the company distributes. It's a promise that those leaves, beans or gourds were grown at a farm with no nasty pesticides or chemicals, with respect for the earth, and fair treatment for workers.
But, in Malaysia, here's where the official assurance ends - at the farms which produce the organically grown fruits and vegetables.

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Organic Facts

5 of 20 Good Reasons To Buy Organic 

 

 Eliminate use of growth hormones, antibiotics and genetically engineered drugs
and feeds in livestock. In Australia there remain 12 antibiotics that can be used as growth
promoters. More than 500 000kg of antibiotics were used each year in the 1990s. Resistant
bacteria such as Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are known to spread via the food
chain (Collignon, 2003).

 

Source: BFA