Chemically treated seeds have been approved, as have chemically grown plant starts. Synthetic ingredients are now ok for fertilizers. Antibiotics and some hormones are to be approved for livestock production. Factory farm confinement for livestock is considered organically benign. Non-organic mammalian livestock can be used as organic slaughter stock.
Strychnine is now ok, as is the coating of fruits and produce.
It appears that ground sheep brains are ok for organic cattle feed, although surely illegal. These examples are just the tip of the iceberg. The document is riddled with many such affronts to organic principles. Lawyers for the State of California have informally judged this document to be so vague as to be unenforceable on almost any level. The regulations have so many distinctions, categories, sub-categories and permittings by exceptions to prohibitions and forbiddings by negatives to authorizations that they are practically impossible to understand clearly.