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Pasture.
Land used for livestock grazing that is managed to provide feed value and maintain or improve soil, water, and vegetative resources. (NOP definition)

Peer review panel.
A panel of individuals who have expertise in organic production and handling methods and certification procedures and who are appointed by the Administrator to assist in evaluating applicants for accreditation as certifying agents. (NOP definition)

Person.
An individual, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or other entity. (NOP definition)

Pesticide.
Any substance which alone, in chemical combination, or in any formulation with one or more substances is defined as a pesticide in section 2(u) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136(u) et seq). (NOP definition)

Petition.
A request to amend the National List that is submitted by any person in accordance with this part. (NOP definition)

Phenotypic.
The expressed traits of an individual plant, animal or other organism; the net result of its genetics and its environment.

Planting stock.
Any plant or plant tissue other than annual seedlings but including rhizomes, shoots, leaf or stem cuttings, roots, or tubers, used in plant production or propagation. (NOP definition)

Practice standard.
The guidelines and requirements through which a production or handling operation implements a required component of its production or handling organic system plan. A practice standard includes a series of allowed and prohibited actions, materials, and conditions to establish a minimum level performance for planning, conducting, and maintaining a function, such as livestock health care or facility pest management, essential to an organic operation. (NOP definition)

Principal display panel.
That part of a label that is most likely to be displayed, presented, shown, or examined under customary conditions of display for sale. (NOP definition)

Private entity.
Any domestic or foreign nongovernmental for-profit or not-for-profit organization providing certification services. (NOP definition)

Probiotics.  
Beneficial bacteria administered as a dietary supplement or health treatment for livestock.   Probiotics are used by both organic and non-organic dairy producers to treat calves for scours and in other situations.

Processing.
Cooking, baking, curing, heating, drying, mixing, grinding, churning, separating, extracting, slaughtering, cutting, fermenting, distilling, eviscerating, preserving, dehydrating, freezing, chilling, or otherwise manufacturing and includes the packaging, canning, jarring, or otherwise enclosing food in a container. (NOP definition)

Processing aid.
(1) A substance that is added to a food during the processing of such food but is removed in some manner from the food before it is packaged in its finished form; (2) a substance that is added to a food during processing, is converted into constituents normally present in the food, and does not significantly increase the amount of the constituents naturally found in the food; and (3) a substance that is added to a food for its technical or functional effect in the processing but is present in the finished food at insignificant levels and does not have any technical or functional effect in that food. (NOP definition)

Producer.
A person who engages in the business of growing or producing food, fiber, feed, and other agricultural-based consumer products. (NOP definition)

Production lot number/identifier.
Identification of a product based on the production sequence of the product showing the date, time, and place of production used for quality control purposes. (NOP definition)

Profile, soil.
A vertical cross-section of a given soil plot, extending through all its horizons into the parent material.

Prohibited substance.
A substance the use of which in any aspect of organic production or handling is prohibited or not provided for in the Act or the regulations of this part. (NOP definition)