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organic foods
- Subject Category
- E Economics, Business and Industry
- Q Food and Human Nutrition
- Definition
- Organic food is produced without: antibiotics; growth hormones; most conventional pesticides; petroleum- based fertilizers or sewage sludge-based fertilizers; bioengineering; or ionizing radiation. USDA certification is required before a product can be labeled "organic". Companies, including restaurants, that handle or process organic food must be certified also.
- Definition Source
- NAL Thesaurus Staff
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/418.rdf
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/418
- Used For
- certified organic foods
- organic produce
- Broader Term
- foods
- Related Term
- fair trade
- food labeling
- health foods
- non-genetically modified foods
- organic certification
- organic production
- sustainable agriculture
- Spanish
- alimentos ecológicos
- Term Number
- 418