CROP PROTECTION
When producing or handling organic products sold or labeled as being products whose content is partially or wholly organic, it is forbidden to use:

• Any synthetic pesticides (eg defoliants and desiccants, fungicides, insecticides and rodenticides), wood preservatives (eg arsenate) or other pesticides
• Fertilizer or composted plant and animal material that contains a substance
• Sewage sludge, in any form, as defined in this standard, as a soil amendment
• Synthetic growth regulators
• Synthetic allopathic veterinary drugs, including antibiotics and parasiticides
• Synthetic processing substances, aids and ingredients, and food additives and processing aids including sulphates, nitrates and nitrites
• Ionizing radiation and forms of irradiation on products destined for food or their inputs
• Equipment, packaging materials and storage containers, or bins that contain a synthetic fungicide, preservative or fumigant
• Cloned farm animals and their descendants