{"id":15627,"date":"2012-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120221-04n"},"modified":"2012-02-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T22:00:00","slug":"bioprefered-products-a-priority-on-u-s-shopping-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/bioprefered-products-a-priority-on-u-s-shopping-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2019BioPrefered\u2019 Products a Priority on U.S. Shopping Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The U.S. federal government will increase its emphasis on purchases of bio-based products as a way to bring jobs to rural areas, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Federal workers will also get training in buying items labeled &#8220;BioPreferred,\u201d Vilsack said today on a conference call with reporters. More than 3,000 companies now create about 20,000 bio-based products including cleaning agents, paints, lubricants and personal-care goods from renewable sources, Vilsack said.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to create &#8220;more contracts, more opportunities for these bio-based businesses,\u201d Vilsack said on the call, which included Commerce Secretary John Bryson. &#8220;That should lead to more jobs in rural America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The BioPreferred labeling program, begun in 2009, identifies products make from renewable sources such as corn, with a goal of lowering petroleum consumption. To qualify for the designation, an item must contain enough renewable material to meet or exceed U.S. Department of Agriculture-<br \/>specified standards.<\/p>\n<p>The government also said it will provide $15 million in awards for projects that promote regional job creation, and increase efforts to help community and technical colleges train new health information-technology workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>The U.S. federal government will increase its emphasis on purchases of bio-based products as a way to bring jobs to rural areas, Agriculture Secretary Tom<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[8400],"class_list":["post-15627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15627"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}