NEVADA PESTICIDE EXAM SET – GENERAL QUESTION WITH || || || || || || || ||
ACCURATE DETAILED SOLUTIONS || ||
Pesticides and the Law - ✔✔Both federal and state laws govern the use and application of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
restricted-use pesticides. The federal law serves as an umbrella and the state law may be
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
more restrictive, but not less
|| || || ||
I. Federal Law - ✔✔Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) passed in
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1972, and was last amended in 2012 by the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act (PRIA).
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
FIFRA regulates the registration, manufacturing, transportation, distribution and use of
|| || || || || || || || || ||
pesticides.
FIFRA, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, is administered by the U.S.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Environmental Protection Agency. || ||
FIFRA Section 1: Administration - ✔✔The United States Environmental Protection agency
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
(EPA) administers FIFRA
|| ||
Certified Applicator - ✔✔any individual who is authorized (trained and/or tested for
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
competency in the safe and effective handling and use of these pesticides) to use or
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supervise the use of any pesticide, that is classified for restricted use.
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Private Applicator - ✔✔a certified applicator who uses or supervises the use of any
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restricted-use pesticide for purposes of producing any agricultural commodity on property
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owned or rented by him or his employer, (if applied without compensation) on another
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
person's property. (EXAMPLES: farmers, ranchers, floriculturists, orchardists).
|| || || || || ||
Nonprimary Principle Commercial Applicator: - ✔✔a certified applicator who applies or
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
supervises the application of a restricted-used pesticides, except as part of a business of pest
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
,control, and does not qualify as a private applicator (EXAMPLES: HOA employees, private
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
golf clubs, hotels/casinos/resorts, restaurants, homeowners)
|| || || ||
"Under the Direct Supervision of a Certified Applicator - ✔✔unless otherwise prescribed by
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
its labeling, a restricted-use pesticide may be applied by a competent person acting under
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
the instructions and control of a certified applicator who is available if and when needed,
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
even though such certified applicator is not physically present at the time and place the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
pesticide is applied. || ||
Pest: - ✔✔any insect, rodent, nematode, fungus, weed or o any other form of terrestrial or
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
aquatic plant or animal life or virus, bacteria, or other micro-organism (except viruses,
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
bacteria, or other micro-organisms on or in living man or other living animals) that are
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
considered pests. ||
Pesticide: - ✔✔any substance or mixture of substances intended to prevent, destroy, repel,
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
or mitigate any pest, o or any substance or mixture of substances used as a plant regulator,
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
defoliant, or desiccant; does not include "new animal drugs."
|| || || || || || || ||
Label and Labeling: - ✔✔includes the printed material attached to the pesticide container
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
and all supplemental pesticide information that may not be attached to the pesticide
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
container. It is the law to read, understand and follow all pesticide labeling.
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
General Use Pesticide: - ✔✔One (or some of its uses) that is less likely to harm humans or
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
the environment when it is used according to label directions. (Appears immediately below
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
the heading of "Directions for Use").
|| || || || ||
General Use Pesticides (GUP) are those that are less likely to harm humans or the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
environment. They are available to everyone. || || || || ||
Restricted-Use Pesticide - ✔✔(or some of its uses) that could cause human injury or || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
environmental damage, unless it is applied by competent "certified applicator" persons who || || || || || || || || || || || ||
,have shown their ability to use these pesticides safely and effectively, (in a box on a
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
prominent part of the front panel). || || || || ||
Restricted Use Pesticides (RUP) are those that could cause harm to humans or the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
environment if not applied properly. Applications of these pesticides must be done by a || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
certified applicator or a licensed applicator. || || || || ||
To Use Any Registered Pesticide in a Manner Inconsistent with its Labeling - ✔✔means to
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
use any pesticide in a manner not permitted by the labeling, provided that the term shall
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
not include: o Applying a pesticide at any dosage, concentration or frequency less than that
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
listed on the labeling. o Applying a pesticide against any target pest not on the labeling if
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
the application is to a crop, animal, or site that is listed. o Use any equipment or method of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
application that is not prohibited by the labeling. o Mix a pesticide or pesticides with a
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
fertilizer, if the labeling does not prohibit the mixture || || || || || || || ||
Classification of pesticides and their uses by the EPA is based upon "risk assessment": - || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔potential for poisoning humans || || || ||
type of formulation
|| || ||
the way the pesticide is used
|| || || || || ||
site of application
|| || ||
potential for environmental harm || || ||
FIFRA Section 5: Experimental Use Permits - ✔✔Issued to accumulate the necessary
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
information and data required to register a new pesticide. Permit period shall not exceed || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
one (1) year, and is not required for areas less than 10 acres per pest for terrestrial pests or
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
less than one acre per pests for aquatic pests. A tolerance of exemption under the Federal
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act does not need to exist. EPA may establish a temporary
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
tolerance level if the use of a pesticide may reasonably be expected to result in any residue
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
on or in food or feed.
|| || || || ||
, FIFRA Section 7: Registration of Establishments - ✔✔Requirement: No person shall
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
"produce" any pesticide or active ingredient used in the production of a pesticide unless the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
establishment in that it is produced is registered with the EPA. Produce" means: o to || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
manufacture, prepare, compound, propagate, or process any pesticide or o to repackage or|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
otherwise change the container of any pesticide. EPA shall assign each registered
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
establishment an establishment number. (EXAMPLE: EPA Est. No. 0123-NV-01). || || || || || || || ||
FIFRA Section 11: Certification of Restricted Use Pesticide Applicators - ✔✔EPA requires
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
each state to maintain a program for certification of restricted use pesticide applicators. The
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Nevada Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the University of Nevada
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Cooperative Extension, conducts training and testing sessions for certification. Certification
|| || || || || || || || || ||
requires training and/or testing for competency in the safe and effective handling and use of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
these pesticides. Persons who are not certified pesticide applicators may not use restricted-
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
use pesticides unless they are directly supervised by a certified applicator.
|| || || || || || || || || ||
The Nevada Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the University of Nevada
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
Cooperative Extension, conducts training and testing sessions for certification.
|| || || || || || || ||
Certification requires training and/or testing for competency in the safe and effective
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
handling and use of these pesticides. || || || || ||
Persons who are not certified pesticide applicators may not use restricted-use pesticides
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
unless they are directly supervised by a certified applicator
|| || || || || || || ||
FIFRA Section 12: Unlawful Acts - ✔✔It shall be unlawful for any person in any state to
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
distribute, sell, offer for sale, deliver, etc., to any person: o any pesticide not registered by the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
EPA. o any registered pesticide whose composition or claims differ from those made in
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
connection with its registration. || || ||
o any pesticide that is "adulterated" or "misbranded" or any device that is misbranded.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
ACCURATE DETAILED SOLUTIONS || ||
Pesticides and the Law - ✔✔Both federal and state laws govern the use and application of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
restricted-use pesticides. The federal law serves as an umbrella and the state law may be
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
more restrictive, but not less
|| || || ||
I. Federal Law - ✔✔Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) passed in
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
1972, and was last amended in 2012 by the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act (PRIA).
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
FIFRA regulates the registration, manufacturing, transportation, distribution and use of
|| || || || || || || || || ||
pesticides.
FIFRA, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, is administered by the U.S.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Environmental Protection Agency. || ||
FIFRA Section 1: Administration - ✔✔The United States Environmental Protection agency
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
(EPA) administers FIFRA
|| ||
Certified Applicator - ✔✔any individual who is authorized (trained and/or tested for
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
competency in the safe and effective handling and use of these pesticides) to use or
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
supervise the use of any pesticide, that is classified for restricted use.
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Private Applicator - ✔✔a certified applicator who uses or supervises the use of any
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
restricted-use pesticide for purposes of producing any agricultural commodity on property
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
owned or rented by him or his employer, (if applied without compensation) on another
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
person's property. (EXAMPLES: farmers, ranchers, floriculturists, orchardists).
|| || || || || ||
Nonprimary Principle Commercial Applicator: - ✔✔a certified applicator who applies or
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
supervises the application of a restricted-used pesticides, except as part of a business of pest
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
,control, and does not qualify as a private applicator (EXAMPLES: HOA employees, private
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
golf clubs, hotels/casinos/resorts, restaurants, homeowners)
|| || || ||
"Under the Direct Supervision of a Certified Applicator - ✔✔unless otherwise prescribed by
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
its labeling, a restricted-use pesticide may be applied by a competent person acting under
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
the instructions and control of a certified applicator who is available if and when needed,
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
even though such certified applicator is not physically present at the time and place the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
pesticide is applied. || ||
Pest: - ✔✔any insect, rodent, nematode, fungus, weed or o any other form of terrestrial or
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
aquatic plant or animal life or virus, bacteria, or other micro-organism (except viruses,
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
bacteria, or other micro-organisms on or in living man or other living animals) that are
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
considered pests. ||
Pesticide: - ✔✔any substance or mixture of substances intended to prevent, destroy, repel,
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
or mitigate any pest, o or any substance or mixture of substances used as a plant regulator,
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
defoliant, or desiccant; does not include "new animal drugs."
|| || || || || || || ||
Label and Labeling: - ✔✔includes the printed material attached to the pesticide container
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
and all supplemental pesticide information that may not be attached to the pesticide
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
container. It is the law to read, understand and follow all pesticide labeling.
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
General Use Pesticide: - ✔✔One (or some of its uses) that is less likely to harm humans or
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
the environment when it is used according to label directions. (Appears immediately below
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
the heading of "Directions for Use").
|| || || || ||
General Use Pesticides (GUP) are those that are less likely to harm humans or the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
environment. They are available to everyone. || || || || ||
Restricted-Use Pesticide - ✔✔(or some of its uses) that could cause human injury or || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
environmental damage, unless it is applied by competent "certified applicator" persons who || || || || || || || || || || || ||
,have shown their ability to use these pesticides safely and effectively, (in a box on a
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
prominent part of the front panel). || || || || ||
Restricted Use Pesticides (RUP) are those that could cause harm to humans or the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
environment if not applied properly. Applications of these pesticides must be done by a || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
certified applicator or a licensed applicator. || || || || ||
To Use Any Registered Pesticide in a Manner Inconsistent with its Labeling - ✔✔means to
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
use any pesticide in a manner not permitted by the labeling, provided that the term shall
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
not include: o Applying a pesticide at any dosage, concentration or frequency less than that
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
listed on the labeling. o Applying a pesticide against any target pest not on the labeling if
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
the application is to a crop, animal, or site that is listed. o Use any equipment or method of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
application that is not prohibited by the labeling. o Mix a pesticide or pesticides with a
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
fertilizer, if the labeling does not prohibit the mixture || || || || || || || ||
Classification of pesticides and their uses by the EPA is based upon "risk assessment": - || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔potential for poisoning humans || || || ||
type of formulation
|| || ||
the way the pesticide is used
|| || || || || ||
site of application
|| || ||
potential for environmental harm || || ||
FIFRA Section 5: Experimental Use Permits - ✔✔Issued to accumulate the necessary
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
information and data required to register a new pesticide. Permit period shall not exceed || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
one (1) year, and is not required for areas less than 10 acres per pest for terrestrial pests or
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
less than one acre per pests for aquatic pests. A tolerance of exemption under the Federal
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act does not need to exist. EPA may establish a temporary
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
tolerance level if the use of a pesticide may reasonably be expected to result in any residue
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
on or in food or feed.
|| || || || ||
, FIFRA Section 7: Registration of Establishments - ✔✔Requirement: No person shall
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
"produce" any pesticide or active ingredient used in the production of a pesticide unless the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
establishment in that it is produced is registered with the EPA. Produce" means: o to || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
manufacture, prepare, compound, propagate, or process any pesticide or o to repackage or|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
otherwise change the container of any pesticide. EPA shall assign each registered
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
establishment an establishment number. (EXAMPLE: EPA Est. No. 0123-NV-01). || || || || || || || ||
FIFRA Section 11: Certification of Restricted Use Pesticide Applicators - ✔✔EPA requires
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
each state to maintain a program for certification of restricted use pesticide applicators. The
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Nevada Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the University of Nevada
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Cooperative Extension, conducts training and testing sessions for certification. Certification
|| || || || || || || || || ||
requires training and/or testing for competency in the safe and effective handling and use of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
these pesticides. Persons who are not certified pesticide applicators may not use restricted-
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
use pesticides unless they are directly supervised by a certified applicator.
|| || || || || || || || || ||
The Nevada Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the University of Nevada
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
Cooperative Extension, conducts training and testing sessions for certification.
|| || || || || || || ||
Certification requires training and/or testing for competency in the safe and effective
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
handling and use of these pesticides. || || || || ||
Persons who are not certified pesticide applicators may not use restricted-use pesticides
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
unless they are directly supervised by a certified applicator
|| || || || || || || ||
FIFRA Section 12: Unlawful Acts - ✔✔It shall be unlawful for any person in any state to
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
distribute, sell, offer for sale, deliver, etc., to any person: o any pesticide not registered by the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
EPA. o any registered pesticide whose composition or claims differ from those made in
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
connection with its registration. || || ||
o any pesticide that is "adulterated" or "misbranded" or any device that is misbranded.
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