Ewa Rembiałkowska

TL;DR: In the last decade, consumers' trust in food quality has decreased drastically, mainly because of growing ecological awareness and several food scandals (e.g. BSE, dioxins, bacterial contamination). It has been found that intensive conventional agriculture can introduce contaminants into the food chain this paper.

TL;DR: Overall, this review emphasises several documented and likely human health benefits associated with organic food production, and application of such production methods is likely to be beneficial within conventional agriculture, e.g., in integrated pest management.

TL;DR: Evidence from controlled experimental studies indicates that the high grazing/forage-based diets prescribed under organic farming standards may be the main reason for differences in FA profiles, and further studies are required to enable meta-analyses for a wider range of parameters.

TL;DR: Redundancy analysis of data from a large cross-European milk quality survey indicates that the higher grazing/conserved forage intakes in organic systems were the main reason for milk composition differences.

TL;DR: An overview of recent studies investigating the health value of organic foods is given and a framework for estimating the scientific impact of these studies is presented and the problems connected with the different research approaches are discussed.