Pesticides

Pesticides

Any chemical or substance used to kill or inhibit the growth of pests that damage or interfere with the growth of crops, shrubs, tress, timber and other vegetation useful to humans.

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cumulative risk

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The risk of a common toxic effect associated with concurrent exposure by all relevant pathways and routes of exposure to a group of chemicals that share a common mechanism of toxicity.

dechlorination

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Removal of chlorine and chemical replacement with hydrogen or hydroxide ions to detoxify a substance.

disinfectant

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A chemical that destroys vegetative forms of harmful microorganisms, but does not ordinarily kill bacterial spores.

product distributor

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A registrant may distribute or sell a registered product under a distributor's name. On the label of a distributor product, the EPA Registration Number will be followed by a dash and the ...

dose

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

In terms of monitoring exposure levels, the amount of a toxic substance taken into the body over a given period of time.

dose additivity

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The Agency's assumption when evaluating the joint risk of chemicals that are toxicologically similar and act at the same target site. In other words, it is assumed that each chemical behaves as a ...

dose response

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

How an organism's response to a toxic substance changes as its overall exposure to the substance changes. For example, a small dose of carbon monoxide may cause drowsiness; a large dose can be fatal.