Slaughter animals that have been medicated must be withheld from slaughter
or organic production for 90 days or twice the FDA recommended withdrawal
period, whichever is longer. Dairy, fiber and laying stock that have been
medicated must be withheld from organic production for 30 days or twice the
FDA recommended withdrawal period, whichever is longer. Thereafter the
animal may return to the organic herd and the products may be sold as
organic. Stock requiring medications but unable to meet this withdrawal
timetable cannot be sold as organic. CCOF livestock producers are prohibited
from denying treatment to an ill animal so that its products may be labeled
organic.
5.5.2 Parasite Control Producers are required to practice methods that
reduce parasite infestation through the use of alternative methods such as:
a) Quarantine and fecal exams for all incoming stock.
b) Adequate pasture rotation and good pasture management.
c) Maintaining clean facilities.
d) Periodic fecal exams and culling seriously infested individuals.
e) Vector and intermediate host control.
f) Using biological control methods, such as fly parasites.
g) Maintaining dusting wallows for poultry.
5.5.3 Parasiticide Use Animals diagnosed as infested with parasites must be
promptly and properly treated. Failure to treat severely infested animals is
prohibited, and may result in decertification of the operation. In such
cases synthetic parasiticides:
a) May not be used routinely;
b) May not be used in organic slaughter stock within 90 days or twice the
FDA withdrawal time of slaughter or sale as organic;
c) May be used in dairy, laying and fiber stock provided they are withheld
from organic production for 30 days or twice the FDA withdrawal, whichever
is longer.
Products from animals treated with synthetic parasiticides within the
appropriate withdrawal period must not be commingled with products from
untreated animals. See §8.3.2 for a generic list of livestock materials.
.http://www.ccof.org/handbook/Handbook_5.htm#S5D1
check out the above for CCOF sight I think they speak for me not the USDA
check out a organic growers web page
http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Loren Muldowney <loscott@snowfall.envsci.Rutgers.EDU>
To: OGL@LSV.UKY.EDU <OGL@LSV.UKY.EDU>
Date: Monday, November 16, 1998 8:10 AM
Subject: Livestock and organic standards
>Greetings Gardeners!
>
>I hope that at least some of you also have livestock, and can provide
>some direction in this question.
>
>It seems clear, and there is little argument, that the use of
>antibiotics and hormones should be prohibited from organic livestock
>farming.
>
>Is there a good reason that the standards for "organic" livestock
>production should NOT also prohibit synthetic parasiticides? I think
>that pasture management should be able to eliminate or greatly reduce
>the internal parasite problem. Would anybody care to tell me I have it
>all wrong? It anybody willing to insist that these drugs are in fact
>"necessary," and give a line of reasoning as to why that is?
>
>I am trying to write a coherent response to the USDA, in response to
>their latest request for additional input on livestock standards.
>
>Thanks to all
>
>Loren in NJ
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