- agricultural product
means any agricultural commodity or product, whether raw or processed, including any commodity or product derived from livestock that is marketed in the United States for human or livestock consumption.
- botanical pesticides
means natural pesticides derived from plants.
- certified organic farm
means a farm, or portion of a farm, or site where agricultural products or livestock are produced, that is certified by the certifying agent under this chapter as utilizing a system of organic farming as described by this chapter.
- certified organic handling operation
means any operation, or portion of any handling operation, that is certified by the certifying agent under this chapter as utilizing a system of organic handling as described under this chapter.
- certifying agent
includes any person (including a private entity)—
- crop year
means the normal growing season for a crop as determined by the Secretary.
- governing State official
means the chief executive official of a State or, in the case of a State that provides for the Statewide election of an official to be responsible solely for the administration of the agricultural operations of the State, such official, who administers an organic certification program under this chapter.
- handle
means to sell, process or package agricultural products.
- handler
means any person engaged in the business of handling agricultural products, except such term shall not include final retailers of agricultural products that do not process agricultural products.
- handling operation
means any operation or portion of an operation (except final retailers of agricultural products that do not process agricultural products) that—
- livestock
means any cattle, sheep, goats, swine, poultry, equine animals used for food or in the production of food, fish used for food, wild or domesticated game, or other nonplant life.
- National List
means a list of approved and prohibited substances as provided for in section 6517 of this title.
- national organic program import certificate
means a form developed for purposes of the program under this chapter—
- organic plan
means a plan of management of an organic farming or handling operation that has been agreed to by the producer or handler and the certifying agent and that includes written plans concerning all aspects of agricultural production or handling described in this chapter including crop rotation and other practices as required under this chapter.
- organically produced
means an agricultural product that is produced and handled in accordance with this chapter.
- person
means an individual, group of individuals, corporation, association, organization, cooperative, or other entity.
- pesticide
means any substance which alone, in chemical combination, or in any formulation with one or more substances, is defined as a pesticide in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.).
- processing
means cooking, baking, heating, drying, mixing, grinding, churning, separating, extracting, cutting, fermenting, eviscerating, preserving, dehydrating, freezing, or otherwise manufacturing, and includes the packaging, canning, jarring, or otherwise enclosing food in a container.
- producer
means a person who engages in the business of growing or producing food or feed.
- Secretary
means the Secretary of Agriculture.
- State organic certification program
means a program that meets the requirements of section 6506 of this title, is approved by the Secretary, and that is designed to ensure that a product that is sold or labeled as “organically produced” under this chapter is produced and handled using organic methods.
- synthetic
means a substance that is formulated or manufactured by a chemical process or by a process that chemically changes a substance extracted from naturally occurring plant, animal, or mineral sources, except that such term shall not apply to substances created by naturally occurring biological processes.