50-31-222. Organic food defined. Organic food is food that:
     (1) was produced, harvested, cleaned, stored, distributed, processed, and packaged without application of synthetically compounded fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, growth regulators, aromatic petroleum solvents, diesel and other petroleum fractions, or other synthetically compounded substances, and without being preserved by irradiation;
     (2) was produced, harvested, cleaned, stored, distributed, processed, and packaged with application of only microorganisms, microbiological products, and materials consisting of or derived or extracted solely from plant, animal, or mineral-bearing rock substances, including but not limited to Bordeaux mixtures and trace elements, soluble kelp, lime, sulfur, gypsum, dormant oils, summer oils, fish emulsion, soap, green manure, compost, and animal manures, and ascorbic acid, sodium ascorbate, calcium ascorbate, and citric acid used in processing;
     (3) contains no added coloring or synthetically compounded material;
     (4) does not contain pesticide residue in excess of 10% of the level regarded as safe by the U.S. food and drug administration;
     (5) in the case of perennial crops, was grown in fields to which no synthetically compounded substances were applied for 24 months before the appearance of flower buds and throughout the entire growing and harvesting season of the crop;
     (6) in the case of annual crops and 2-year crops, was grown in fields to which no synthetically compounded substances or growth regulators were applied for 24 months before planting or transplanting and throughout the entire growing and harvesting season of the crop;
     (7) in the case of meat, poultry, or fish, was raised for at least the final 60% of its life:
     (a) on food produced in conformity with subsection (5) or (6);
     (b) without the use of any chemical or drug to stimulate or regulate growth or tenderness; and
     (c) without any drug or antibiotic administered or introduced by injection or ingestion, except for treatment of a specific disease or malady not less than 90 days before the slaughter of such animal, bird, or fish; and
     (8) in the case of milk or eggs, was produced by animals raised in accordance with subsection (7) except that no chemical, drug, or antibiotic was administered or introduced less than 30 days before the production of such milk or eggs.

     History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 605, L. 1985.