3.2 Measures to be taken following the application of non-approved pest control substances

Cross references

USDA NOP: § 205.672 Emergency pest or disease treatment.
NZFSA Technical Rules for Organic Production:
Section 6, point 6.5.7(b)

When a prohibited substance is applied to a certified operation due to a National emergency pest or disease treatment program and the certified operation otherwise meets the requirements of this part, the certification status of the operation shall not be affected as a result of the application of the prohibited substance: Provided, That:

(a) Any harvested crop or plant part to be harvested that has contact with a prohibited substance applied as the result of a National emergency pest or disease treatment program cannot be sold, labelled, or represented as organically produced; and

(b) Any livestock that are treated with a prohibited substance applied as the result of a National emergency pest or disease treatment program or product derived from such treated livestock cannot be sold, labelled, or represented as organically produced: Except, That:
(1) Milk or milk products may be sold, labelled, or represented as organically produced beginning 12 months following the last date that the dairy animal was treated with the prohibited substance; and
(2) The offspring of gestating mammalian breeder stock treated with a prohibited substance may be considered organic: Provided, that, the breeder stock was not in the last third of gestation on the date that the breeder stock was treated with the prohibited substance.