Pesticide Applicators License - Core Manual Guaranteed Success
Restricted Use Pesticides
️ A pesticide that poses more risk and could cause some human injury or environmental damage
even when used as directed on the label.
Commercial Applicators
️ Persons who apply or use a pestic...
✔️ A pesticide that poses more risk and could cause some human injury or environmental damage
even when used as directed on the label.
Commercial Applicators
✔️ Persons who apply or use a pesticide or device on any property of another person for
compensation.
Public Applicators
✔️ Persons who apply pesticides as part of their duties as employees of a state agency, county,
municipal corporation, or other governmental agency.
Noncommercial Applicators
✔️ Persons who apply restricted-use pesticides on land or property owned, rented, or leased by the
applicator or the applicator's employer.
Private Applicators
✔️ Persons who apply any restricted-use pesticides for the production of an agricultural commodity on
property owned or rented by themselves or their employers, or on the property of other agricultural
producers with whom they trade services.
Certified Handlers
✔️ Persons employed by a licensed commercial applicator, noncommercial applicator, public
applicator, or pesticide dealer who handle pesticides in other than unopened containers for the purpose
of preparing, mixing, or loading pesticides for application by another person, repackaging bulk
pesticides, or disposing of pesticide-related wastes from these activities.
Certified Applicator
✔️ A person certified by the IDALS to use pesticides as a private, public, or commercial applicator.
, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
✔️ Regulates the production, transportation, sale, use, and disposal of all pesticides.
Residues
✔️ Pesticides may remain in small amounts in or on fruits, vegetables, grains, other foods, and animal
feed; measured in ppm (parts per million), ppb, ppt.
Tolerances
✔️ Allowable residue levels; Safe tolerance: reasonable certainty of no harm.
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA)
✔️ Federal law regulating the amount of pesticide residues contained on commodities and food.
Application Rate
✔️ The amount of pesticide applied to a site; usually expressed as a liquid or dry measure per unit area.
Preharvest Interval
✔️ Part of the pesticide label that defines the number of days after application of a pesticide before a
crop can be harvested.
Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA)
✔️ Federal law that significantly altered portions of both FIFRA and FFDCA, including revised definitions
for safe pesticide tolerances for raw and processed foods.
Worker Protection Standard (WPS)
✔️ A set of regulations from the EPA aimed at reducing the risk of pesticide poisonings, injuries, and
exposure to agricultural workers and handlers.
Endangered Species Act (ESA)
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