Section 5: The Pesticide Label Flashcards
The pesticide label is required under which federal act?
Pest Control Products Act
List the 10 components on a principal label panel?
- Product Name
- Class Designation
- Net Contents
- Site of Action Grouping and Identification Symbol
- Read the label before using
- Keep out of reach of children
- Precautionary symbols and signal words
- Guarentee statment
- Registration # (pcp act #)
- Name and address of the registran
List the 7 components on the secondary label panel
- Directions of use
- Precautionary statements
- Disposal Statments
- First-aid instructions
- Toxicological information
- Notice to user
- Notice to buyer
List the 4 federal class designations of pesticides
- Domestic
- Commercial (includes agricultural, industrial, and institutional)
- Restricted
- Manufacturing
In what section of the pesticide label can you find the active ingredient and its concentration?
Guarentee Statement
Which section of the pesticide label provides additional information not given in the first-aid section that is useful for medical personel? It may include the signs of poisoning, the antidotes, and any ingredients in the product that may affect the treatment of poisoning?
Toxicological information section
What signal word or words are used to describe each of these symbols?
a) Flames in Octogon
b) Skeleton hand in diamond
c) Explosion in triangle
d) skull and crossbones in diamond
e) flames in triangle
a) danger- flammable
b) warning- corrosive
c) caution- explosive
d) warning- poison
e) caution- flammable
What signal words would be required on a pesticide label that indicates an octogon?
Danger
List 7 sections of a safety data sheet (SDS)
- Product and company identification
- Composition/information on ingredients
- Hazards identification
- First-aid measures
- Fire-fighting measures
- Accidental release measures
- Handling and Storage
- Exposure controls/personal protection
- Physical and chemical properties
- Stability and reactivity
- Toxicological information
- Ecological information
- Disposal Information
- Transport Information
- Regulatory information
- Other information