PESTICIDE LABELING UNDER THE FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE AND RODENTICIDE ACT FIFRA

Pesticide Labeling Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) 

This book discusses in some detail the various purposes of requirements for labeling in the chemical industry indentification, warning, instruction, and so forth. In most cases—drugs, consumer products, transportation of hazardous materials—labeling requirements are expected to serve one or more of these purposes. It is safe to say, however, that in no case is labeling as central to the function of a class of chemicals nor as intertwined with their regulation as it is with pesticides. 

The pesticide label is crucial to implementation of FIFRA—the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.). Just how crucial is demonstrated by the fact that use of a pesticide in a manner inconsistent with its label is a violation of the law. Furthermore, the pesticide label is the regulatory document of record in the implementation of FIFRA and that label s instructions and prohibitions have the force of law. 

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