in it's common usage wrt bees, "organic" can mean different things.  if one is going to use this as a description wrt operations affected, it is necessary to reveal how the term is used.  if it's used only for "certified organic" operations, that's an easy definition....others get more complicated....but given how the word is used by beekeepers, it does seem an important distinction between those that use no treatments at all, and those that use "approved organic" treatments such as formic acid, thymol, sugar dusting, etc.

wrt confidentiality, i don't see how this is any bigger a problem than revealing that beekeepers that use "treatment x" have a correlation with "y problems".  defining the terms you are using to classify where the samples come from has nothing to do with protecting confidentiality.

deknow

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