---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 205.270"
title: "7"
number: "205.270"
heading: "Organic handling requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/205.270"
---

# §205.270. Organic handling requirements.

- (a) Mechanical or biological methods, including but not limited to cooking, baking, curing, heating, drying, mixing, grinding, churning, separating, distilling, extracting, slaughtering, cutting, fermenting, eviscerating, preserving, dehydrating, freezing, chilling, or otherwise manufacturing, and the packaging, canning, jarring, or otherwise enclosing food in a container may be used to process an organically produced agricultural product for the purpose of retarding spoilage or otherwise preparing the agricultural product for market.
- (b) Nonagricultural substances allowed under [§ 205.605](/cfr/7/205.605.md) and nonorganically produced agricultural products allowed under [§ 205.606](/cfr/7/205.606.md) may be used:
  - (1) In or on a processed agricultural product intended to be sold, labeled, or represented as “organic,” pursuant to [§ 205.301(b)](/cfr/7/205.301.md?p=b), if not commercially available in organic form.
  - (2) In or on a processed agricultural product intended to be sold, labeled, or represented as “made with organic (specified ingredients or food group(s)),” pursuant to [§ 205.301(c)](/cfr/7/205.301.md?p=c).
- (c) The handler of an organic handling operation must not use in or on agricultural products intended to be sold, labeled, or represented as “100 percent organic,” “organic,” or “made with organic (specified ingredients or food group(s)),” or in or on any ingredients labeled as organic:
  - (1) Practices prohibited under paragraphs [(e)](/cfr/7/205.105.md?p=e) and [(f)](/cfr/7/205.105.md?p=f) of § 205.105.
  - (2) A volatile synthetic solvent or other synthetic processing aid not allowed under [§ 205.605](/cfr/7/205.605.md): Except, That, nonorganic ingredients in products labeled “made with organic (specified ingredients or food group(s))” are not subject to this requirement.
- (d) In addition to the substances described in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, substances allowed under § [205.603(d)(2)](/cfr/7/205.603.md?p=d-2) and [(3)](/cfr/7/205.603.md?p=d-3) may be used in or on pet food intended to be sold, labeled, or represented as “organic” or “made with organic (specified ingredients or food group(s)),” pursuant to § [205.301(b)](/cfr/7/205.301.md?p=b) and [(c)](/cfr/7/205.301.md?p=c). Pet food must be labeled pursuant to [subpart D](/cfr/7/subpartD.md) of this part.

## Notes

### Amendments

[65 FR 80637, Dec. 21, 2000, as amended at 89 FR 104393, Dec. 23, 2024]

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 6501-6524.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 80637, Dec. 21, 2000, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[65 FR 80637, Dec. 21, 2000, as amended at 89 FR 104393, Dec. 23, 2024]