{"id":16689,"date":"2013-07-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130710-01n"},"modified":"2013-07-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T22:00:00","slug":"usda-restarts-biopreferred-bioproduct-certification-and-labeling-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/usda-restarts-biopreferred-bioproduct-certification-and-labeling-program\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA restarts BioPreferred Bioproduct Certification and Labeling program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>In Washington, US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has reopened the BioPreferred Bioproduct Certification and Labeling program and resuming the processing of applications.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The Biobased Markets Program has improved consumer education and choice by labeling 900 biobased products from February 2011 until January 2013. Brent Erickson, executive vice president of BIO\u2019s Industrial &#038; Environmental Section, commented, &#8220;The USDA Certified Biobased Product label is a potent symbol for U.S. consumers that identifies products manufactured from renewable resources for a cleaner, healthier environment. Biobased products decrease our reliance on imported oil and save energy in manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/2013\/07\/04\/usda-restarts-biopreferred-bioproduct-certification-and-labeling-program\/\" >www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/2013\/07\/04\/usda-restarts-biopreferred-bioproduct-certification-and-labeling-program\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: BioPreferred program, federal policy<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>In Washington, US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has reopened the BioPreferred Bioproduct Certification and Labeling program and resuming the processing of applications.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The<\/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":[2247,2194,8400],"class_list":["post-16689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-biopreferred","supplier-biotechnology-innovation-organization-bio","supplier-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16689","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=16689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16689"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}