Organic Farming Lessens Reliance on Pesticides and Promotes Public Health by Lowering Dietary Risks

CAFos and Public Health: Risks associated with welfare friendly farming

In-feed Antibiotics Conventional poultry farming systems often include subtherapeutic amounts of antibiotics in the feed to prevent disease and improve production performance. In contrast, organic poultry producers can­ not, by law, include antibiotics in the feed. Interestingly, advocates for both organic and conventionally raised poultry have each claimed that the absence or presence of in-fe...

Changing to Minimal Reliance on Pesticides

Organic Diets Significantly Lower Children’s Dietary Exposure to Organophosphorus Pesticides

We used a novel study design to measure dietary organophosphorus pesticide exposure in a group of 23 elementary school-age children through urinary biomonitoring. We substituted most of children's conventional diets with organic food items for 5 consecutive days and collected two spot daily urine samples, first-morning and before-bedtime voids, throughout the 15-day study period. We found that ...

enHealth Guidance on: Clandestine Drug Laboratories and Public Health Risks

Organic farming in the Nordic countries--animal health and production.

Organic farming (or ecological agriculture) is of growing importance in the agricultural sector worldwide. In the Nordic countries, 1-10% of the arable land was in organic production in 1999. Organic farming can be seen as an approach to agriculture where the aim is to create integrated, humane, environmentally and economically sustainable agricultural production systems. Principles like nutrie...