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Confirmation of the first BSE case in Austria this week is expected to boost demand for organic foods. However experts warn that any such boom may not boost the industry in the long term, since production and demand rarely balance each other, a report from the Agence France Presse states this week.
The organic food market boomed in January when a false BSE alert on a cow exported to Germany coincided with the closure of seven Austrian farms over allegations that farmers had been feeding pigs illicit drugs as growth aids.
"We could have sold five to 10 times more pork than we could have produced then," Alexandra Pohl, of the Austrian National Association for the Promotion of Bio-Agriculture told the news agency.
Health Minister Herbert Haupt called for promotion of organic farming in the face of the BSE case, but agriculture ministry spokesman Daniel Kapp said that would only work if there were enough demand for organic foods.