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.

Industry: Agricultural chemicals

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tampering

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Adjusting, negating, or removing pollution control equipment on a motor vehicle.

Technical Assistance Grant (TAG)

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

As part of the Superfund program, Technical Assistance Grants of up to $50,000 are provided to citizens' groups to obtain assistance in interpreting information related to clean-ups at Superfund ...

Technical-Grade Active Ingredient (TGA)

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A pesticide chemical in pure form as it is manufactured prior to being formulated into an end-use product (e.g. wettable powders, granules, emulsifiable concentrates). Registered manufactured ...

Industry-specific effluent limitations based on best available preventive technology applied to a discharge when it will not cause a violation of water quality standards at low stream flows. Usually ...

technology-based standards

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Industry-specific effluent limitations applicable to direct and indirect sources which are developed on a category-by-category basis using statutory factors, not including water-quality effects.

teratogen

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A substance capable of causing birth defects.

teratogenesis

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The introduction of nonhereditary birth defects in a developing fetus by exogenous factors such as physical or chemical agents acting in the womb to interfere with normal embryonic development.