Organic milk has more omega-3s but isn't any healthier: The UK's organic dairy farmers won a rare victory in September when the Food Standards Agency said it agreed with a group of scientists and dairy farmers that organic milk contained greater quan

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The organic lobby in the UK is delighted because the UK government's hitherto organic-unfriendly Food Standards Agency (FSA) has for the first time recognised that the composition of an organically produced food could be different from that of its conventional counterpart. There was a catch, however. The FSA said that because the omega-3s in question were not the long-chain varieties (which arc found in oily fish and are responsible for the cardiovascular benefits now widely associated with omcga-3s), but the short-chain ones, there was in fact no basis for claiming that organic milk offered health benefits over and above those of ordinary-milk.