104 STAT. 3936 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 such term shall not include final retailers of agricultural products that do not process agricultural products. (10) HANDUNG OPERATION. —The term "handling operation" means any operation or portion of an operation (except final retailers of agricultural products that do not process agricultural products) that— (A) receives or otherwise acquires agricultural products; and (B) processes, packages, or stores such products. (11) LIVESTOCK. —The term "livestock" means any cattle, sheep, goats, swine, poultry, equine animals used for food or in the production of food, fish used for food, wild or domesticated game, or other nonplant life. (12) NATIONAL UST. —The term "National List" means a list of approved and prohibited substances as provided for in section 2118. (13) ORGANIC PLAN.—The term "organic plan" means a plan of management of an organic farming or handling operation that has been agreed to by the producer or handler and the certifying agent and that includes written plans concerning all aspects of agricultural production or handling described in this title including crop rotation and other practices as required under this title. (14) ORGANICALLY PRODUCED. — The term "organically produced" means an agricultural product that is produced and handled in accordance with this title. (15) PERSON. —The term "person" means an individual, group of individuals, corporation, association, organization, cooperative, or other entity. (16) PESTICIDE.—The term "pesticide" means any substance which alone, in chemical combination, or in any formulation with one or more substances, is defined as a pesticide in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.). (17) PROCESSING. —The term "processing" means cooking, baking, heating, drying, mixing, grinding, churning, separating, extracting, cutting, fermenting, eviscerating, preserving, dehy- drating, freezing, or otherwise manufacturing, and includes the packaging, canning, jarring, or otherwise enclosing food in a container. (18) PRODUCER.—The term "producer" means a person who engages in the business of growing or producing food or feed. (19) SECRETARY. — The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture. (20) STATE ORGANIC CERTIFICATION PROGRAM. —The term "State organic certification program" means a program that meets the requirements of section 2107, is approved by the Secretary, and that is designed to ensure that a product that is sold or labeled as "organically produced" under this title is produced and handled using organic methods. (21) SYNTHETIC.— The term "sjmthetic" means a substance that is formulated or manufactured by a chemical process or by a process that chemically changes a substance extracted from naturally occurring plant, animal, or mineral sources, except that such term shall not apply to substances created by naturally occurring biological processes.
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