Kurzgesagt has a pretty great video[0] about organic food, and goes a little bit into what the definition of "organic" means. Digging through his citations[1] (

Kurzgesagt has a pretty great video[0] about organic food, and goes a little bit into what the definition of "organic" means. Digging through his citations[1] (which is awesome, btw), as far as American legal definitions and pesticides and the whatnot are concerned, the relevant law[2] says that pest and disease problems can be controlled using "non-synthetic controls, such as...repellents", meaning that pesticides can be used, as long as they're also "organic" (which, he notes later in the video, there are slightly less, but still non-zero traces of, and not necessarily safer[3]) That being said, there really shouldn't be a worry about traces of "chemicals" on organic OR non-organic produce, as the FDA has very strict guide lines and testing procedures that produce sellers go through[4] before sending out produce that almost everyone is well under. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PmM6SUn7Es https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PmM6SUn7Es [1]: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesorganic/ https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesorganic/ [2]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/7/205.206 https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/7/205.206 [3]: https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.aces.illinois.edu%2Fnews%2Fgoing-organic-are-organic-pesticides-safer-their-synthetic-counterparts&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFcRSNuMTWD7T6t6lqpHx0GjRii4A https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.aces.illinoi... [4]: https://www.ams.usda.gov/datasets/pdp/pdpdata https://www.ams.usda.gov/datasets/pdp/pdpdata