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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cleared reviews

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

OPP Science Reviews may contain information that registrants may claim as confidential, many times they must be cleared of this information before they can be released. Once they are cleared, we ...

A person applying pesticides as part of a business applying pesticides for hire or a person applying pesticides as part of his or her job with another (not for hire) type of business, organization or ...

common mechanism of toxicity

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Two or more chemicals or other substances that cause a common toxic effect(s) by the same, or essentially the same, sequence of major biochemical events (i.e., interpreted as mode of action).

concentration

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The relative amount of a substance mixed with another substance. An example is five parts per million of carbon monoxide in air or 1 milligram/liter of iron in water.

conventional pesticide

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

In contrast to biological pesticide, this is any man-made chemical which can be used to kill pests.

conventional pesticides

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Pesticides that are chemicals or other substances developed and produced primarily or only for use as pesticides. The term is generally used in reference to active ingredients. An example is DDT, ...

criteria

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Descriptive factors taken into account by EPA in setting standards for pollutants. For example, water quality criteria describe the concentration of pollutants that most fish can be exposed to for an ...