Ronette Schulte, Administrative Assistant (573) 751-2794. The Chief Medical Officers serve as the departmentâs senior clinical leaders by providing advice and counsel to the department director regarding a broad range of clinical policy, programmatic and strategic issues.
Organic vegetables at a farmers' market in Argentina. Organic foods are foods produced by organic farming. While the standards differ worldwide, organic farming in general features cultural, biological, and mechanical practices that foster cycling of resources, promote ecological balance, and conserve biodiversity.
In chemistry, organic refers to carbon containing compounds, though some such compounds are excluded from this category (e.g. carbonates are not organic). In food production, organic refers to food that was produced without chemical pesticides and fertilizers. This includes the soil the food was grown in.