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For the second year, the interprofessional association Interbio Loire" rel="tag">Pays de la Loire is organizing the Organic Route. A program of open days, debates, conferences… to promote the players in the sector.
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After two years of crisis, the organic market is regaining color. | PHOTO ARCHIVES LE COURRIER DE L’OUEST-LAURENT COMBET
The benefits of organic for health are multiple. In terms of production, there are two major differences with conventional agriculture: upstream, there are no synthetic pesticides, very few pesticides at all, and GMOs are also prohibited. Our specifications are very strict
explains Fabrice Fy, co-founder with Mélika Zaouri of Nature & Cie, a company processing organic and gluten-free products created twenty years ago in Vallet (Loire-Atlantique). On the processing side, being organic means that we only use natural additives. In the food industry, there are more than five hundred additives. Our specifications eliminated four hundred and fifty to keep only fifty, all natural.
And if organic food is better for your health, it also has a significant impact on the planet.
“We must be aware of the dangers linked to pesticides, additives…”
Member of Interbio Pays de la Loire, an inter-professional organization, and Entrepreneurs bio des Pays de la Loire,…
