Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 2 - Agriculture and Commerce › Part 1 - Rules of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce › Subpart 3 - Bureau of Plant Industry › Chapter 08 - Pesticide Law Regulations › Subchapter 01 - Regulations Governing Registration of Pesticides and Pesticide Products › Definitions › Section 2-1-3-08-01-100

Current through June 25, 2024
Words used in these regulations shall be construed as
						  having the same meaning as in the definitions given in the Act.
1. The term "AAPCO" means the Association of
						American Pesticide Control Officials.
2. The term "Act" means the Mississippi
						Pesticide Law of 1975,
Miss. Code Ann.
§§ 69- 23-1,
						et seq.
3. The term "bulk
						container" means any container holding more than 55 gallons of
						concentrated/undiluted liquid pesticide or more than 100 pounds of dry
						pesticide.
4. The term "Bureau"
						means the Bureau of Plant Industry within the Mississippi Department of
						Agriculture and Commerce.
5. The
						term "channels of trade" means distribution channel that a pesticide or
						pesticide product follows once it leaves the producing establishment.
6. The term "deficient in ingredient" means
						an active ingredient or functioning agent has been found in a pesticide product
						which has been packaged, labeled and released for shipment that deviates below
						AAPCO Standards and Uniform Policy (Adopted March, 1998), or as amended
						hereafter. In addition, for adjuvants a deviation of more than 10% from the
						label guarantee shall be considered a violation
7. The term "discontinued product(s)" means
						pesticide product(s) for which manufacturing has been halted but may still
						remain in the channels of trade.
8.
						The term "establishment" means any place where a pesticide or active ingredient
						is used to produce a pesticide or pesticide product, or where a pesticide or
						pesticide product is held for distribution or sale.
9. The term "FDA" means the Federal Food and
						Drug Administration.
10. The term
						"formulate" means receiving ingredients for a product individually and then
						mixing them in order to produce a new product.
11. The term "Notice of warning" or "Notice
						of non-compliance" means the document sent to an establishment (pesticide
						producer, distributor, packager, etc.) which notifies said persons of a product
						that has been found to be in violation of the Mississippi Pesticide
						Law.
12. The term "pesticide
						product" means a product that has been packaged, labeled and released for
						shipment from the producing establishment.
13. The term "pesticidal product report(s)"
						means the records kept by a pesticide producing facility on the amounts of
						pesticide products manufactured or repackaged, and/or released for
						shipment.
14. The term "produce"
						means to manufacture, prepare, compound, propagate, or process any pesticide or
						active ingredient used in producing a pesticide or pesticide product.
15. The term "repackaged" means receiving a
						product in bulk and then packaging and relabeling it.
16. The term "removed from the channels of
						trade" means the act of stopping the sale of a pesticide or pesticide product
						and removing it from the store shelf, inventory list, or warehouse with
						assurance that it will not be distributed to the end-user.
17. The term "site of application" means a
						place to which a pesticide can be applied such as soil, types of plants, types
						of structures, types of crops, etc.
18. The term "wholesale distributor or
						distributor" means a place of business, which receives pesticide products from
						the manufacturer for distribution to the retailer or in some cases directly to
						the end-user.
Miss. Code Ann.
						  §
													69-23-9.