# COMAR Title 15 — Maryland Department of Agriculture

## Subtitle 22 — Organically Produced Commodities

### Chapter 02 — Organic Product Standards

#### Regulation .06 Irrigation.

*COMAR 15.22.02.06*

A. In areas where irrigation is necessary or desired, a producer shall include in the application for a certification permit and the farm plan an analysis of water quality and soil salinization.

B. A producer who irrigates and who is suspected by the Department to have a water-quality or soil-salinization problem shall:

  (1) Retest for water quality or soil salinization, as required by the Department; and

  (2) Submit tissue-test results for at least one edible crop produced each year until a residue from water contaminated with a substance prohibited by this subtitle is not found in the crop, and at least every third year after that.