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Organic foods: Are they safer? More nutritious?

What is organic food?

Organic foods are items grown under specific conditions or products made with those foods. The organic food label says more about how an item was farmed than about the food itself.

Organic farming is a type of agriculture that avoids the use of some typical farming practices.

Organic farmers can't use some types of soil additives and fertilizers, genetic engineering, or radiation on their products. Organically farmed animals aren't given hormones for growth or antibiotics. Also, these animals get organic feed and must have the option to go outside.