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In 2001, the United States Environmental Protection Agency published a guidance to "manufacturers, formulators, and registrants of pesticide products" (EPA 2001) [33] that stated the EPA's stance against pesticide drift as well as suggested product labelling practices. To try and reduce pesticide drift, the EPA is a part of several initiatives.
The word pesticide derives from the Latin pestis (plague) and caedere (kill). [5]The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has defined pesticide as: . any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, or controlling any pest, including vectors of human or animal disease, unwanted species of plants or animals, causing harm during or otherwise interfering with the ...
The Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC) definition of insecticide resistance is ' a heritable change in the sensitivity of a pest population that is reflected in the repeated failure of a product to achieve the expected level of control when used according to the label recommendation for that pest species '. [104]
The biological activity of a pesticide, be it chemical or biological in nature, is determined by its active ingredient (AI - also called the active substance). Pesticide products very rarely consist of the pure active ingredient. The AI is usually formulated with other materials (adjuvents and co-formulants) and this is the product as sold, but ...
Insecticides are pesticides used to kill insects. [1] They include ovicides and larvicides used against insect eggs and larvae, respectively. The major use of insecticides is in agriculture, but they are also used in home and garden settings, industrial buildings, for vector control, and control of insect parasites of animals and humans.
Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) is a term used by water quality professionals to describe pollutants that have been detected in environmental monitoring samples, that may cause ecological or human health impacts, and typically are not regulated under current environmental laws.
Its breakdown products and metabolites, DDE and DDD, are also persistent and have similar chemical and physical properties. [1] DDT and its breakdown products are transported from warmer areas to the Arctic by the phenomenon of global distillation , where they then accumulate in the region's food web .
The term applies to various pesticides such as insecticide, fungicide, herbicide and nematocide. [3] The definition of residue of pesticide according to the world health organisation (WHO) is:- Any specified substances in or on food, agricultural commodities or animal feed resulting from the use of a pesticide. The term includes any derivatives ...