Organic Framing

Organic Standards

• The use of synthetic pesticides, weedicides and agro-chemicals led to contamination of products and the quality of the produce is under question.
• Thus, pesticide residue laboratories were set up to test the pesticide contamination in food and drink, but it did not prevent terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem on land and water.
• Thus, the clean and uncontaminated food can only be obtained by growing than in places, which is not contaminated and not applied with toxic chemicals.
• The standards are set which makes the food products to be grown under specified conditions, using only permissible inputs, following organic principles during growing, harvesting, processing, packing and transportation and the same came to be known as ‘organic standards’.
• Organic standards are sets of definitions, requirements, recommendations and restrictions regarding the practices and materials that can be used within certified organic production and processing systems. Organic standards also cover such aspects as the transport, storage and marketing of organic products.
• Organic standards typically contain lists of materials that are permitted as farm and processing inputs, such as fertilizers, pesticides and food additives. All other materials should be considered as prohibited unless the relevant certification programme approves their use.
• Organic standards generally emphasis the use of good management practices to minimise the need for inputs wherever possible. Organic standards address such broader aspects as biodiversity, native vegetation retention, waterway management, animal husbandry, ethics and waste management.