Chapter I
OVERVIEW OF THE PESTICIDE REGISTRATION PROCESS
B. INTRODUCTION TO THE PESTICIDE REGISTRATION PROCESS
D. AUTHORITY TO REGULATE (FEDERAL AND STATE)
1. PESTICIDE REGISTRATION BRANCH
a. General Functions
b. Label Resource Center (formerly Information Center)
c. Library
d. California Research Authorizations2. PESTICIDE ENFORCEMENT BRANCH
3. WORKER HEALTH AND SAFETY BRANCH
5. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING BRANCH
F. PESTICIDE REGISTRATION AND EVALUATION COMMITTEE - PREC
Note from the editor:
This desk manual is to be used by branch staff in the pesticide registration process in California. It includes procedures and policies which are current for the date indicated; periodic updates will be incorporated into the manual. The manual is used primarily by the Registration Specialist. Many of the links within this document are to outside web resources; many, are to online documents that are internal to DPR's intranet. Distribution of this electronic version does not guarentee access to those internal documents via the public internet.
This manual includes descriptions of:
- processes for registration
- data requirements
- scientific evaluation stations
- types of registrations
The manual is to be used in conjunction with reference sources listed in this chapter and is intended to reflect the laws and regulations of California. As with any guide, variations may occur which require verification by supervisors or the branch chief.
Please give any suggested changes to the Policy/Procedure Development Coordinator.
Chapter I - OVERVIEW OF THE PESTICIDE REGISTRATION PROCESS
A. REFERENCE MATERIAL TO BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THIS MANUAL
The following reference sources are to be used in conjunction with this manual. This list is not all-inclusive, but is meant to be a guide.
Federal
State
B. INTRODUCTION TO THE PESTICIDE REGISTRATION PROCESS
The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) is the lead agency responsible for a comprehensive pesticide regulatory program.
| Before a pesticide can be sold, offered for sale, or used in California, it must be registered with DPR. The purpose of the registration process is to determine, before registration, that the product can be used safely and effectively in accordance with its label directions. The pesticide product label and scientific data must be reviewed and found acceptable before the product can be registered. The pesticide product must be properly labeled and appropriate for its intended use. | FAC 12811, 12824, 12826 |
Pesticide products submitted for registration in California must first be registered by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA). Some concurrent submissions are allowed as described in Chapter III. California law requires registration of spray adjuvants, which are not considered pesticides by FIFRA. Note: Certain specific pesticide products are exempt from the requirement to obtain registration. See California Notice to Registrants 2000-6. |
40CFR 152.15 FIFRA Sec. 3, Sec.12 CA Notice 2000-6 |
1. To register a product, an applicant must submit the appropriate documents and the required data.
The Registration Specialist reviews the submission for completeness. If incomplete, the submission may be returned. If complete, the submission may undergo scientific evaluation followed by a 30-day posting for public comment or be registered based on previously evaluated data without scientific review.. If the data and label are adequate, recommendations are favorable, and there are no unmitigated adverse effects, the product is licensed for registration.
The scientific evaluation is performed by scientists in the Registration Branch, Medical Toxicology Branch and the Worker Health & Safety Branch. For some products, the Environmental Monitoring Branch and the Pesticide Enforcement Branch are also involved in the review process. DPR may refuse to register any product that fails to meet the registration requirements.
After the product is registered, information about the product and its label are computer coded. A paper copy file is also maintained for each pesticide product. The Enforcement Branch along with the County Agricultural Commissioner are responsible for enforcing proper sale, use, and storage of pesticide products.
2. Any changes made to the registered label must be reviewed and approved (except those allowed through the DPR Notification process) before the product bearing the amended label can be sold or used in California.
The label is the law. Any changes to the label must be on file with DPR.
3. Subregistrations, additional brand names, changes of product ownership, or changes in firm name must also be registered before the product can be sold or offered for sale.
4. Once a product is registered, it is subject to data call-ins, reevaluations, and reporting of adverse effects.
The outcome of any of these activities could be suspension or cancellation of the product's registration. In some cases, registants may amend labels and formulations to mitigate hazards - or may withdraw their registrations.
Brief outline of the registration process for a new product. Visual diagram of Registration Process with Database Links.
| Intake Unit | Receives submission and assigns an ID# and a status sheet. |
| Library | Indexes submitted data studies. |
| Registration Specialist | Reviews the submission for completeness. |
| Reviews the label. | |
| Returns incomplete submissions to the applicant. | |
| Forwards complete submissions to scientific evaluation. Processes certain submissions without scientific evaluation. |
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| Evaluation Scientists | Evaluate the submitted data. |
| Registration Specialist | Reviews the evaluation scientists' recommendations. |
| Registration Specialist | Posts the submission for 30 day public comment period. |
| If decision is to register, forward to Licensing Technician. If decision is to deny, deny the registration. |
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| Licensing Technician | Issue Certificate of Registration (license), if decision is register. |
| The term pesticide includes any product intended to repel, kill, prevent, destroy, control, or mitigate any pest. Pesticides include insecticides, herbicides, plant growth regulators, rodenticides or other vertebrate control agents, repellents, dessicants, fungicides, miticides, disinfectants, sterilants, and sanitizers. Spray adjuvants are pesticides under California law. | FIFRA Sec. 2 40CFR 152.3,152.5 FAC 12753,12754.5 CCR 6000 |
Federal authority is as follows:
FIFRA (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act) and the Code of Federal Regulations Title 40 (40CFR), parts 150 to 189, pertain to the U.S. EPA requirements for the registration of pesticides.
Section 24(a) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) states "A State may regulate the sale or use of any Federally-registered pesticide or device in the state, but only if and to the extent the regulation does not permit any sale or use prohibited by this Act."
Sections of FIFRA and 40CFR refer to types of federal registrations as listed below:
Section 3 authorizes full or conditional registration.
Section 5 authorizes issuance of an Experimental Use Permit (EUP).
Section 24(c) authorizes the states to issue a Special Local Need (SLN).
Section 18 authorizes the issuance of an emergency exemption.
Section 25(b) authorizes the exemption of some products from the requirement to register.
State authority is as follows:
California Food and Agricultural Code (law) Sections 12751 through 14155.
California Administrative Code (regulations) Sections 6000 through 6920.
Pesticide Registration Branch
Pesticide Enforcement Branch
Worker Health and Safety Branch
Medical Toxicology Branch
Environmental Monitoring Branch
Pest Management and Licensing Branch
Information Technology Office
1. PESTICIDE REGISTRATION BRANCH
The Pesticide Registration Branch activities include coordination and communication with applicants and scientific staff regarding the pesticide registration review process. Branches other than the Pesticide Registration Branch may be involved in the review process.
This branch is responsible for processing pesticide product registration requests, evaluating scientific data, processing label revisions, communicating with the applicant, coordinating data call-ins, and reevaluating existing products.
Over 5000 registration requests per year are processed by this branch.
The branch performs the functions listed below.
a. General Functions
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The library contains a collection of approximately 50,000 data volumes.
| The library is a reference source for "protected" data used by authorized DPR personnel. Information about protected data and other confidential information is found in procedural memo PPMM 1-71. Note: U.S. EPA uses the term Confidential Business Information (CBI) for this type of information. | FIFRA Sec. 10 |
Library activities include the following:
Complete up-to-date information is contained on the DPR Library home page.
d. California Research Authorizations
California Research Authorizations (RAs) are issued by the Plant Physiology office. RA product uses may or may
not already have a federal Section 5 EUP (Experimental Use Permit). See Chapter VII for process.
2. PESTICIDE ENFORCEMENT BRANCH
The Pesticide Enforcement Branch is responsible for enforcing state and federal laws. The branch is responsible for the following activities:
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The Worker Health and Safety Branch is responsible for reviewing pesticides and their effects on pesticide workers and on all users of pesticide products. These activities are coordinated with County Agricultural Commissioners and other interested agencies. The branch activities include the following:
This branch reviews acute toxicology and chronic toxicology studies which are submitted in support of obtaining new product registration or maintaining registration of existing active ingredients. The branch activities include the following:
5. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING BRANCH
The Environmental Monitoring Branch reviews the impact of pesticide use on the environment, including ground water, and develops ways to minimize the impact. The branch activities include the following:
6. PEST MANAGEMENT AND LICENSING BRANCH
The Pest Management and Licensing Branch activities include the following:
7. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICE
The Information Technology Office is responsible for computer support in DPR. Their activities include the following:
| F. PESTICIDE REGISTRATION AND EVALUATION COMMITTEE - PREC | CCR 6252 |
The committee is chaired by DPR. Committee members include the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, the Air Resources Board, the Department of Fish and Game, the Department of Industrial Relations, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the IR-4 Project University of California, and the County Agricultural Commissioners Association.
The committee members receive notice of all registration actions undergoing scientific evaluation. The data
and label are available for review by these agencies. Comments and recommendations are considered when proposing
a decision. Any committee member may request that a product be discussed during the committee's bimonthly meeting.
G. ABBREVIATIONS DEFINED
ARB - Air Resources Board
AOAC - Association of Official Analytical Chemists
ASTM - American Society of Testing Material
Cal/EPA - California Environmental Protection Agency
CCR - California Code of Regulations
CDFA - California Department of Food and Agriculture
CEQA - California Environmental Quality Act
CFR - Code of Federal Regulations
CSF - Confidential Statement of Formual
CPSC - Consumer Product Safety Commission
DOT - Department of Transportation
DPR - Department of Pesticide Regulation
DTSC - Department of Toxic Substances Control
EUP - Experimental Use Permit
FAC - Food and Agricultural
Code, California
FDCA - Food Drug and Cosmetic Act
FIFRA - Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
GLP - Good Laboratory Practice
IWMB - Integrated Waste Management Board
LIP - Label Improvement Program
MSDS - Material Safety Data Sheet
OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OEHHA - Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
OPP - Office of Pesticide Programs (U.S. EPA)
OPPTS - Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances (U.S.
EPA)
PREC - Pesticide Registration and Evaluation Committee
RED - Reregistration Eligibility Decision document
REI - Reentry Interval
SLN - Special Local Need
SWRCB - State Water Resources Control Board
U.S. EPA - U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
VOC - Volatile Organic Compound
H. GLOSSARY OF TERMS
| Active Ingredient(s): The ingredient(s) of a pesticide that prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate a pest. In the case of a plant growth regulator, an ingredient which, through physiological or biochemical action, accelerates or retards the growth rate of maturation or otherwise alters the behavior of plants. In the case of a desiccant, an ingredient which artificially accelerates the drying of plant tissue. | FIFRA Sec. 2 40CFR 152.3 152.125 |
| Acute Dermal LD50: A single dermal dose of a substance, expressed in milligrams per kilogram of body weight, that is lethal to 50 percent of the test population of animals under test conditions as specified by the U.S. EPA Test Guidelines. | 40CFR 152.3 |
| Acute Inhalation LC50: A concentration of a substance, expressed as parts per million, that is lethal to 50 percent of the test population of animals under test conditions specified in the U.S. EPA Test Guidelines. | 40CFR 152.3 |
| Acute Oral LD50: A single oral dose of a substance, expressed as milligrams per kilogram of body weight, that is lethal to 50 percent of the test population of animals under test conditions as specified in the U.S. EPA Test Guidelines. | 40CFR 152.3 |
Adjuvant: see Spray Adjuvant
Agricultural Use: Pesticide use for plant or animal pests or plant growth regulators.
The definition excludes properly labeled products for home use, use in structural pest control, industrial or institutional use. It also excludes local districts or other public agencies which have entered into a cooperative agreement as outlined in FAC Section 11408.
Algaecide: Substance intended to kill algae in various settings including swimming pools, industrial water cooling towers, and agricultural sites.
Antifouling product: Pesticide intended for use on boat and ship bottoms, pier and dock pilings, and similar submerged structures to prevent attachment or damage and destruction by marine invertebrates.
| Antimicrobial product: Pesticide intended to inhibit growth of any bacteria, fungi or viruses declared to be a pest and which exist in any environment, except in or on living man or animals. This includes the following: | FIFRA Sec.2mm |
Applicant: A person who applies for a registration, amendment, or renewal of a pesticide product registration.
Attractant: Substance which, though its property of attracting certain animals, is intended to help in mitigating pests.
Attractants include sensory stimulants such as pheromones, synthetic attractants, and certain extracts from naturally occurring organic materials. Attractants can be used alone or they can be used in combination with toxicants to kill pests.
Avicide: Substance intended to prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate pest birds. Bird toxicants and repellents also include sensory agents utilizing taste, sight, touch, or other means, intended to repel certain bird species or populations from certain sites, and reproductive inhibitors intended to reduce or otherwise alter the reproductive capacity.
Bacteriostatic Water Filter: This is a water filter unit containing a substrate such as activated charcoal, with a bacteriostatic agent, used for terminal (end) processing of potable (drinking) water.
Biopesticide: Certain types of pesticides derived from such natural materials as animals, plants, bacteria, and certain minerals. There are three major classes of biopesticide: 1) Microbial 2) Plant-Incorporated-Protectants 3) Biochemical.
Biochemical pesticide: Naturally occurring substances that control pests by non-toxic mechanisms and include substances such things as insect sex pheromones and scented plant extracts.
| Chemigation: Applying pesticide through an irrigation system or mixing with irrigation water before the water is applied to the soil or crop. | CCR 6000 FAC 13142 40CFR 170.3 |
| Closed System: A procedure for removing a pesticide from its original container, rinsing the emptied container, and transferring the pesticide and rinse solution through connecting hoses, pipes, and couplings that are sufficiently tight to prevent exposure of any person to the pesticide or rinse solution. Rinsing is not required for undiluted pesticide. System design and construction must meet DPR criteria. | CRR 6000 6746 |
Confidential Business Information (CBI): The term used by U.S. EPA for what DPR calls "protected information."
| Defoliant: A substance which causes leaves or foliage to drop from plants such as harvest-aid agents for cotton to facilitate harvesting. | FAC 12752 FIFRA Sec. 2 |
Degradation Product: A substance resulting from the transformation of a pesticide by physicochemical or biochemical means.
| Desiccant: A substance which artificially accelerates the drying of plant tissue. Desiccants include harvest aid agents which result in accelerated drying and death (maturation) of certain crop plants, such as cotton and soybeans. | FIFRA Sec. 2 |
| Device: Any instrument or contrivance (other than a firearm) as described in FIFRA Section 2(h) which traps, destroy, repels, or mitigates a pest. A device is not considered a pesticide, with the exception of certain structural uses requiring California registration under FAC 15300. | 40CFR 152.500 |
| Diluent: A substance that is mixed with a pesticide to adjust the concentration of the final finished spray prescribed on the pesticide label. A diluent is added in the field by the end user. Water is the diluent, unless the label specifies another substance. | memo of 8-13-97 |
Disinfectant Product: A substance or mixture of substances used to kill bacteria on inanimate environmental surfaces with effectiveness achieving 100% kill of vegetative cells.
Distributor Registration: Registration of a pesticide product by a distributor of the basic registrant's product. Also referred to as a subregistration.
| Drift: Movement of pesticide, during or immediately after use, through air to a site other than the intended site of application. | CCR 6000 |
Dual Use: A pesticide which is labelled for both agricultural and home use.
| Economic Poison: Term no longer used for "pesticide". | CCR 6000 memo of 11-19-00 |
Efficacy: The ability of a pesticide product when used according to label directions to control, kill, repel, or induce the desired action in the target pest as claimed.
Emergency exemption: The term for a FIFRA Section 18 exemption. The four types are specific, quarantine, public health, and crisis. An emergency exemption is issued in response to an emergency pest problem, where no registered alternatives are available.
Emergency registration: A time-limited registration under California law FAC Section 12833 which authorizes registration of a product during the scientific evaluation process, if an emergency exists and there was a previous Section 18.
Environment: Includes water, air, land, and all plants and man and other animals living therein, and the interrelationships which exist among these.
| Establishment: Location where a pesticide or device or active ingredient used in producing a pesticide is produced or manufactured. | FIFRA Sec. 2 40CFR 167 |
FIFRA: The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (law).
Final Printed Labeling: The printed label and labeling which will appear on, or will accompany, the pesticide product.
Fungicide: Substance intended to prevent or inhibit growth, or kill any fungus (including yeasts), except those on or in living man or animals, declared to be a pest. This includes both agricultural fungi and industrial fungi.
Herbicide: Substance intended to kill, prevent, or inhibit the growth of plants and plant parts declared to be a pest. An herbicide can act by direct contact, soil treatment, as a preemergent, as a root control, as a debarking agent on trees, as an aquatic herbicide, or as a biological weed-control agent. Herbicides can also be used in swimming pools, and aquariums. The definition does not include plant growth regulators or slimicides.
| Home Use: Use of a product in the home or its immediate environment. | CCR 6000 |
Household use: The pesticide is applied directly to humans or pets in, on, or around all structures, vehicles, or areas associated with the household or home life. See also definition for residential.
Immediate Container: The container which is in direct contact with the pesticide.
| Industrial Use: A manufacturing, mining, or chemical process such as the preservative treatment of fabrics or structural materials. Included are factories, processing plants, and similar sites. | CCR 6000 |
| Inert Ingredient: Ingredient which does not have pesticidal activity in a pesticide product, but which is intentionally added as part of the formulated product. Examples include wetting and spreading agents, solvents, baits such as sugar, starches, dust carriers such as talc and clay, fillers, propellents in aerosol dispensers, and emulsifiers. | FIFRA Sec. 2 40CFR 152.3 |
Ingredient Statement: A statement which contains the name and percentage of each active ingredient and the total percentage of all inert ingredients in the pesticide.
| Insect: Insects include beetles, bugs, bees, flies, and other allied classes of arthropods whose members are wingless and usually have more than six legs, (for example spiders, mites, ticks, centipedes, and wood lice), generally having the body more or less obviously segmented. Most belong to the Class Insecta, are six-legged, and usually winged. | FAC 12754 FIFRA Sec. 2 |
Insecticide: Substance intended to destroy, repel, prevent or inhibit the establishment, reproduction, development, or growth of, any member of the Class Insecta or other allied Classes in the Phylum Arthropoda declared to be pests. Insecticides are used in agriculture, home or home garden, and other settings such as on stored food and feed, raw or manufactured goods, or on buildings and building materials.
| Institutional Use: A use in or around property that serves the general public or private organizations. This includes buildings such as hospitals, schools, libraries, sports facilities, and office complexes. | CCR 6000 40CFR 152.3 |
Interim Registration: A time-limited registration allowed by California law FAC Section 13161-13170 to collect certain data in support of the registration. The product must be part of a pest management system. An additional $5000 application fee is required.
| Label: Written, printed, or graphic material on, attached to, or accompanying the pesticide product container or wrapper at any time. | FIFRA Sec. 2 USEPA Label Review Manual |
| Labeling: All labels including the pesticide container label, booklets, and any supplemental labels or accompanying literature. | FIFRA Sec. 2 |
Leach: The process by which substances (pesticides) move through media, especially soil, or
materials such as wood.
Letter of Authorization: Letter from a company authorizing use of their data on file with DPR
to support another company's application for registration.
| Manufacturing Use Product: Any pesticide product that is not labeled with directions for end use. This term includes any product intended to be reformulated or packaged into a pesticide. | 40CFR 152.3 |
Maximum Residue Levels (MRL): Term used especially by the European countries to define residue tolerance levels.
Microbial Pesticide: Pesticide that consists of a microorganism (e.g., a bacterium, fungus, virus or protozoan) as the active ingredient.
Molluscicide: Pesticides intended to repel or kill organisms such as snails and slugs in the class of Mollusca or barnacles.
Mutagenic: The property of a substance to induce changes in the genetic complement of either somatic or germinal tissue in subsequent generations.
| Nematicide: Substance intended to prevent, repel, or destroy nematodes in or on plants, plant parts, soil, or certain infested agricultural commodities or articles. Not included are unsegmented round worms with elongated, fusiform, or sac-like bodies covered with cuticle, and inhabiting soil, water, plants, or plant parts. Nematodes may also be called nemas or eelworms. | FIFRA Sec. 2 |
New Active Ingredient: An active ingredient not currently registered in California.
New Product: A pesticide product not currently registered in California. It can contain either a currently registered active ingredient or a new active ingredient.
| Nominal Concentration: The amount of an ingredient expected to be present in a typical sample of pesticide at the time the pesticide is produced. It is expressed as percentage by weight. | 40CFR 158.153 |
Nontarget Organisms: Plants, animals, and other organisms that are not intended to be controlled, injured, killed, or detrimentally affected in any way by the use of a pesticide.
Oncogenic: The property of a substance to produce or induce benign or malignant tumor formations in living animals.
Outdoor Application: Any pesticide application or use that occurs outside enclosed man-made structures or the consequences of which extend beyond enclosed man-made structures, including, but not limited to, crops, pulp and paper mill water treatments and industrial cooling water treatments.
| Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Apparel worn to protect a handler of agricultural pesticides. Examples include coveralls, chemical resistant suits or gloves, respiratory protective equipment, protective eyewear. | 40CFR 156.212 170.240 CCR 6000 |
| Pest: Any undesired insect, rodent, nematode, fungus, bird, vertebrate, invertebrate, weed, virus, bacteria, or other microoganism (except microorganisms on or in living man or other living animals) which is declared to be injurious to health or environment. | FAC 12754.5 FIFRA Sec. 2 40CFR 152.5 |
| Pesticide: A pesticide includes the following: | FIFRA Sec. 2 40CFR 152.3 |
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Pheromone: A compound, produced by an arthropod, which modifies the behavior of the other individuals of the same species. Synthetic pheromones have also been manufactured. |
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Plant Growth Regulator: Any substance or mixture of substances (except plant nutrients) intended to cause, through physiological action, plant responses to benefit man. Plant growth regulators include, but are not limited to, substances intended to cause stimulation or retardation of plant growth, stem elongation, abscission, sucker control, flower induction and fruit set, fruit thinning, altered sex expression, fruit growth and ripening, rooting of cuttings, seed and bud dormancy, and crop yield enhancement. |
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Plant-Incorporated-Protectants (PIPs): Pesticidal substances that plants produce from genetic material that has been added to the plant.
Postharvest: The application of a pesticide after harvest, usually to a stored commodity.
Precursor: A chemical without pesticidal action which is converted on-site, through chemical reaction, to a pesticide.
Preharvest Interval: The period between the last application of a pesticide and the time of harvest of the treated commodity.
| Produce: Any food in its raw or natural state intended for consumer use with or without any further processing. | FIFRA Sec. 2 |
Propellent: A gas or volatile liquid used in a pressurized pesticide product for the purpose of expelling the contents of the container.
| Protective Clothing: Clothing which is used to protect the human body from contact with pesticides and is separate from, or in addition to, normal wearing apparel. Protective clothing may include, but is not limited to, coveralls, waterproof boots, waterproof gloves, waterproof hat, and waterproof apron. | CCR 6000 |
Reentry Interval: The amount of time which must lapse between a pesticide application and the entering of the area or site, particularly by workers. See definition for Restricted Entry Interval (REI).
| Registrant: A person or company who holds the registration of a pesticide and has obtained a certificate of registration (license) from the Department. | FAC 12756 |
Research Authorization (RA): The state-issued permit for experimental pesticide applications. This is a permit, not a registration action.
| Residential: Use of a pesticide on pets or humans or in, on, or around the area associated with a household. This also includes recreational vehicles and nonagricultural outbuildings and noncommercial greenhouses. | 40CFR 152.3 |
Residue: The pesticide active ingredient, metabolite, or degradation product that is in a crop after a pesticide application.
Residue Tolerance: see Tolerance
| Restricted Entry Interval (REI): An REI is the time period immediately following a pesticide application during which entry into a treated area is restricted. Formerly known as a reentry interval. | CCR 6000 6182 6770~6778 40CFR 170.3 |
Restricted Materials: The term used for either California restricted or federally restricted materials. |
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Rodenticide: Substance used to kill, repel, prevent, or inhibit reproduction of animals belonging to the Orders Rodentia and Insectivora and including all rabbits and hares. Rodenticides are usually used in conjunction with baits. |
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| Sanitizer: Substances which kill most of the vegetative bacteria on inanimate environmental surfaces. To qualify as a sanitizer, a 99.9% reduction of bacteria is required on non-food contact surfaces and 99.999% reduction on food contact surfaces after exposure to the substance for a defined contact time. | |
| Service Container: Any container, other than the original labeled container of a registered pesticide product provided by the registrant, that is utilized to hold, store, or transport the pesticide or the use-dilution of the pesticide. | FAC 12859 12757.5 CCR 6676 6678 |
| Slimicide: Substance intended prevent, inhibit the growth of, or destroy biological slimes composed of combinations of algae, bacteria or fungi declared to be pests. Slimicides include, but are not limited to slime control agents for use in industrial water cooling systems and in pulp and paper mill wet-end systems. | |
| Special Local Need (SLN): An existing or imminent pest problem for which the state lead agency, based upon satisfactory supporting information, has determined that an appropriate federally-registered pesticide product is not sufficiently available. Section 24(c) of FIFRA authorizes the state to issue the registration. | |
| Spray Adjuvant: Product used to enhance the activity of a pesticide and which is sold in a separate package. This includes any wetting agent, spreading agent, deposit builder, adhesive emulsifying agent, deflocculating agent, water modifier, or similar agent, with or without toxic properties of its own, intended to be used with another pesticide as an aid to the application or effect of the other pesticide. | FAC 12758 |
Sterilant: Substance used to kill all bacteria, fungi, and viruses, including their spores.
Structural Pest Control: A use requiring a Structural Pest Control Board license.
Subregistration: A term used for the registration of a pesticide product by a distributor of the the basic registrant's product.
Teratogenic: The property of a substance to produce or induce functional deviations or developmental anomalies not heritable, in or on an animal embryo or fetus.
| Tolerance, Residue: A residue tolerance is a commodity-specific federally established upper limit to the amount of a chemical's residue allowed on a commodity. This can be on a raw agricultural commodity at the time of harvest or, under certain circumstances, on a processed food or feed commodity. A chemical's residue includes the parent compound plus any degradates or metabolites. All substances intentionally applied to an agricultural crop must have a tolerance, or exemption from tolerance, established. | 40 CFR 180 |
| ULV (Ultra Low Volume): A volume of one-half gallon or less total volume of spray per acre. | |
| Use Dilution: The dilution specified on the label or labeling that produces concentration of the pesticide for a particular purpose or effect. | FAC 12758.5 |
| Vector: Any organism capable of transmitting the agent of human disease, discomfort, or injury. Included are mosquitoes, flies, fleas, cockroaches, ticks, mites, rats. | FIFRA Sec. 2 |
| Volatility: The property of a substance to convert into vapor or gas without chemical change. | |
| Weed: Any plant which grows where not wanted. | FIFRA Sec. 2 FAC 12759 |