Florida Core Pest Exam Question and
Answer Grade A+ 100% Correct
Questions and Answers
• What does FIFRA stand for? -✓✓Federal Insecticide, Fungicide & Rodenticide
Act
• What does FIFRA regulate? -✓✓- Registers the use, sale, and disposal of
pesticides, fungicides, and rodenticides.
- Administered by the EPA
- Special local needs
- Emergency exemption
- Exemption of minimal-risk pesticides
- Pesticide re-registration (Review of older pesticides to keep up to date with
current health/safety standards
• FIFRA (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act) Founding Year? -
✓✓1947
• Use Classifications of Pesticides -✓✓- General Use/Unclassified Pesticides
- Restricted Use Pesticides (RUPs)
• General Use/Unclassified Pesticides -✓✓- No harm to applicator or environment
- Anyone can buy them and use them
• Restricted Use Pesticides (RUPs) -✓✓- Can cause harm to humans or the
environment at label rate
- Require a license to apply
- Some active ingredients may be listed as RUPs and general use depending on
formulation
• FDACS -✓✓Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
- Acts as the state regulatory agency for pesticide licensing
• Ch. 388 F.S. (Florida Statute) -✓✓Florida Mosquito Control Law
- Governs applicators for public health or nuisance pest control
, • Ch. 482 F.S. (Florida Statute) -✓✓Structural Pest Control Act
- Governs for-hire applications made by public health pest control contractors (not
for-hire agricultural applications)
- Includes Pest Control Business and Limited Certifications
• What does Ch. 487 of the Florida Statute govern? -✓✓Pesticide Dealers and
Pesticide Applicators licensing
- Public
- Private
- Commercial
• What is Chapter 487 F.S. (Florida Statute) also known as? -✓✓Florida Pesticide
Law
• Public Applicator -✓✓Use or supervise use of RESTRICTED-USE Pesticides as
part of government job or entity.
• Commercial Applicator -✓✓A certified applicator who uses pesticides on the job,
other than for agricultural production on private property.
• Private Applicator -✓✓An applicator who uses or supervises the use of any
pesticide in the production of an agricultural commodity. Applications must be
made on property owned or rented by the user or his/her employer;or, if applied
without compensation other than trading of personal services between producers of
agricultural commodities, on the property of another person. Non-certified
applicators employed by agricultural producers may use restricted-use pesticides
only when under the direct supervision of a certified private applicator.
• T/F - State restrictions can be more relaxed/liberal than federal restrictions on
pesticides. -✓✓False - State restrictions can only be more STICT than federal
restrictions.
• Pesticide Label -✓✓The main method of communication between a pesticide
manufacturer and pesticide users
- It is a violation of Federal Law to use a pesticide in a manner inconsistent with its
labeling
- The label is the LAW
The front of every label states, "KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN."
Answer Grade A+ 100% Correct
Questions and Answers
• What does FIFRA stand for? -✓✓Federal Insecticide, Fungicide & Rodenticide
Act
• What does FIFRA regulate? -✓✓- Registers the use, sale, and disposal of
pesticides, fungicides, and rodenticides.
- Administered by the EPA
- Special local needs
- Emergency exemption
- Exemption of minimal-risk pesticides
- Pesticide re-registration (Review of older pesticides to keep up to date with
current health/safety standards
• FIFRA (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act) Founding Year? -
✓✓1947
• Use Classifications of Pesticides -✓✓- General Use/Unclassified Pesticides
- Restricted Use Pesticides (RUPs)
• General Use/Unclassified Pesticides -✓✓- No harm to applicator or environment
- Anyone can buy them and use them
• Restricted Use Pesticides (RUPs) -✓✓- Can cause harm to humans or the
environment at label rate
- Require a license to apply
- Some active ingredients may be listed as RUPs and general use depending on
formulation
• FDACS -✓✓Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
- Acts as the state regulatory agency for pesticide licensing
• Ch. 388 F.S. (Florida Statute) -✓✓Florida Mosquito Control Law
- Governs applicators for public health or nuisance pest control
, • Ch. 482 F.S. (Florida Statute) -✓✓Structural Pest Control Act
- Governs for-hire applications made by public health pest control contractors (not
for-hire agricultural applications)
- Includes Pest Control Business and Limited Certifications
• What does Ch. 487 of the Florida Statute govern? -✓✓Pesticide Dealers and
Pesticide Applicators licensing
- Public
- Private
- Commercial
• What is Chapter 487 F.S. (Florida Statute) also known as? -✓✓Florida Pesticide
Law
• Public Applicator -✓✓Use or supervise use of RESTRICTED-USE Pesticides as
part of government job or entity.
• Commercial Applicator -✓✓A certified applicator who uses pesticides on the job,
other than for agricultural production on private property.
• Private Applicator -✓✓An applicator who uses or supervises the use of any
pesticide in the production of an agricultural commodity. Applications must be
made on property owned or rented by the user or his/her employer;or, if applied
without compensation other than trading of personal services between producers of
agricultural commodities, on the property of another person. Non-certified
applicators employed by agricultural producers may use restricted-use pesticides
only when under the direct supervision of a certified private applicator.
• T/F - State restrictions can be more relaxed/liberal than federal restrictions on
pesticides. -✓✓False - State restrictions can only be more STICT than federal
restrictions.
• Pesticide Label -✓✓The main method of communication between a pesticide
manufacturer and pesticide users
- It is a violation of Federal Law to use a pesticide in a manner inconsistent with its
labeling
- The label is the LAW
The front of every label states, "KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN."
