Are there really less pesticide residues on organic crops? The answer might not be as simple as you think. A few weeks ago it was announced that for the first time in the history of USDA-Organic, there will be mandatory pesticide residue testing starting in 2013. This was always a theoretical possibility, but a government audit of certifiers showed that it essentially never happened. Now it will, at least to some extent (something like 5% of operations). I wrote to the contact person at USDA to ask this question: "will this new testing program look for any residues of the pesticides that are allowed on organic crop and thus applied frequently?"
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