7 U.S.C. § 6501
Section 6501 · Purposes
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case International Dairy Foods Ass'n v. Boggs (2010)
Most recently applied in 370 F. Supp. 3d 98 - Organic Trade Ass'n v. U.S. Dep't of Agric. (February 2019)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
It is the purpose of this chapter—
(1) to establish national standards governing the marketing of certain agricultural products as organically produced products;
(2) to assure consumers that organically produced products meet a consistent standard; and
(3) to facilitate interstate commerce in fresh and processed food that is organically produced.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Short Title
Section 2101 of title XXI of Pub. L. 101–624 provided that: “This title [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Organic Foods Production Act of 1990’.”