PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 125 -JUNE 25, 1947
or animal life or viruses, except viruses on or in living man or other
animals, which the Secretary shall declare to be a pest.
",Devia."
b. The term "device" means any instrument or contrivance intended
for trapping, destroying, repelling, or mitigating insects or rodents
or destroying, repelling, or mitigating fungi or such other pests as
may be designated by the Secretary, but not including equipment used
for the application of economic poisons when sold separately therefrom.
"Insecticide."
c. The term "insecticide" means any substance or mixture of sub-
stances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating
any insects which may be present in any environment whatsoever.
"Fungiide."
d. The term "fungicide" means any substance or mixture of sub-
stances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating
any fungi.
et
e The term "rodenticide" means any substance or mixture of sub-
stances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating
rodents or any other vertebrate animal which the Secretary shall
declare to be a pest.
"Herbicide."
f. The term "herbicide" means any substance or mixture of sub-
stances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating
any weed.
"W
eed
. "g.
The term "weed" means any plant which grows where not
wanted.
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e."
h. The term "insect" means any of the numerous small invertebrate
animals generally having the body more or less obviously segmented,
for the most part belonging to the class insecta, comprising six-legged,
usually winged forms, as, for example, beetles, bugs, bees, flies, and to
other allied classes of arthropods whose members are wingless and
usually have more than six legs, as, for example, spiders, mites, ticks,
centipedes, and wood lice.
"Fmngi. "
i. The term "fungi" means all non-chlorophyll-bearing thallophytes
(that is, all non-chlorophyll-bearing plants of a lower order than
mosses and liverworts) as, for example, rusts, smuts, mildews, molds,
yeasts, and bacteria, except those on or in living man or other animals.
m nedint state-
j. The term ingredient statement" means either-
(1) a statement of the name and percentage of each active in-
gredient, together with the total percentage of the inert ingre-
aients, in the economic poison; or
(2) a statement of the name of each active ingredient, together
with the name of each and total percentage of the inert ingre-
dients, if any there be, in the economic poison (except option 1
shall apply if the preparation is highly toxic to man, determined
Pot,
.
p. 6.
as provided in section 6 of this Act) ;
and, in addition to (1) or (2) in case the economic poison contains
arsenic in any form, a statement of the percentages of total and water
soluble arsenic, each calculated as elemental arsenic.
"Activeingrdient."
k. The term "active ingredient" means an ingredient which will
prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate insects, fungi, rodents, weeds or
other pests.
" Inert ingredient."
1. The term "inert ingredient" means an ingredient which is not
active.
"Antidote."
m. The term "antidote" means a practical immediate treatment in
case of poisoning and includes first-aid treatment.
"Person."
n. The term "person" means any individual, partnership, associa-
tion, corporation, or any organized group of persons whether incor-
porated or not.
"Territory. "
o. The term "Territory" means any Territory or possession of the
United States, excluding the Canal Zone.
"Secretary."
p. The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture.
"Registrant."
q. The term "registrant" means the person registering any economic
poison pursuant to the provisions of this Act.
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