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While most of the two countries’ organic standards are the same, Japan has not allowed its organics to be produced with lignin sulfonate, a substance used in post-harvest fruit production, or alkali-extracted humic acid, a fertilizer used to help grow a variety of organic crops.

Today, after 15 years of research costing some $2,000,000, Marathon adds lime to its waste liquors, precipitates out calcium lignin sulfonate, turns it into: >Vanillin, the flavor constituent of vanilla.