Iowa Core Exam Review Pesticide Applicators Latest Update
IOWA Core Exam Review Pesticide
Applicators Latest Update
United States Protection Agency - ✔✔✔-Regulates pesticide use in the united
States
FIFRA - ✔✔✔-Federal insecticide fungicide and rodenticide act
What does FIFRA do? - ✔✔✔-Regulates the production, transportation sale use and
disposal of all pesticides
IDALS - ✔✔✔-Iowa department of agriculture and land stewardship
IDALS job - ✔✔✔-Responsible for certifying pesticide applicators.
FFDCA - ✔✔✔-Federal food drug and cosmetic act.
FFDCA job - ✔✔✔-Federal law regulating the amount of pesticide residues
contained on commodities of food
Residues - ✔✔✔-Amount of pesticide remaining in or on raw farm products or
processed foods. Undesirable presence of a pesticide at the site of application.
Measures in ppm ppb ppt
Tolerence - ✔✔✔-Maximum amount of pesticide that may legally remain in or on a
raw farm product intended for consumption by humans or livestock. Reasonable
certainty of no harm.
Application rate - ✔✔✔-Amount of pesticide applied to a site usually expressed as a
liquid or dry measure per unit area
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Pre harvest interval - ✔✔✔-Part of the pesticide label that defines the number of
days after application of a pesticide before a crop can be harvested.
FQPA - ✔✔✔-Food quality protection act
FQPA job - ✔✔✔-Federal law that significantly altered portions of both FIFRA and
ffdca. Changes included in this act are revised definitions for safe pesticide
tolerances for raw and processed foods
WPS - ✔✔✔-worker protection standard
WPS JOB - ✔✔✔-Set of regulations from the EPA aimed at reducing the risk of of
pesticide poisonings, injuries, and exposure to agriculture workers and handlers.
ESA - ✔✔✔-Endangered species act
ESA JOB - ✔✔✔-Program for the conservation of threatened or endangered plants
and animals and the habitats in which they are found
Endangered species - ✔✔✔-Species that is in danger of extinction throughout all or
significant portion of its range
Threatened species - ✔✔✔-Species that is likely to become endangered within the
foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range
Rinsates - ✔✔✔-Solution of water or oil and pesticide left after rinsing a tank; rinse
water
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IOWA Core Exam Review Pesticide
Applicators Latest Update
United States Protection Agency - ✔✔✔-Regulates pesticide use in the united
States
FIFRA - ✔✔✔-Federal insecticide fungicide and rodenticide act
What does FIFRA do? - ✔✔✔-Regulates the production, transportation sale use and
disposal of all pesticides
IDALS - ✔✔✔-Iowa department of agriculture and land stewardship
IDALS job - ✔✔✔-Responsible for certifying pesticide applicators.
FFDCA - ✔✔✔-Federal food drug and cosmetic act.
FFDCA job - ✔✔✔-Federal law regulating the amount of pesticide residues
contained on commodities of food
Residues - ✔✔✔-Amount of pesticide remaining in or on raw farm products or
processed foods. Undesirable presence of a pesticide at the site of application.
Measures in ppm ppb ppt
Tolerence - ✔✔✔-Maximum amount of pesticide that may legally remain in or on a
raw farm product intended for consumption by humans or livestock. Reasonable
certainty of no harm.
Application rate - ✔✔✔-Amount of pesticide applied to a site usually expressed as a
liquid or dry measure per unit area
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Pre harvest interval - ✔✔✔-Part of the pesticide label that defines the number of
days after application of a pesticide before a crop can be harvested.
FQPA - ✔✔✔-Food quality protection act
FQPA job - ✔✔✔-Federal law that significantly altered portions of both FIFRA and
ffdca. Changes included in this act are revised definitions for safe pesticide
tolerances for raw and processed foods
WPS - ✔✔✔-worker protection standard
WPS JOB - ✔✔✔-Set of regulations from the EPA aimed at reducing the risk of of
pesticide poisonings, injuries, and exposure to agriculture workers and handlers.
ESA - ✔✔✔-Endangered species act
ESA JOB - ✔✔✔-Program for the conservation of threatened or endangered plants
and animals and the habitats in which they are found
Endangered species - ✔✔✔-Species that is in danger of extinction throughout all or
significant portion of its range
Threatened species - ✔✔✔-Species that is likely to become endangered within the
foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range
Rinsates - ✔✔✔-Solution of water or oil and pesticide left after rinsing a tank; rinse
water
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