MASSACHUSETTS PESTICIDE EVALUATION EXAMS
ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔What info on the label can help you recognize and respond to an exposure? -
✔✔Action to take in regard to a specific exposure, notes for a doctor, hotlines to contact
✔✔Where on label can you find what to do in the event of an exposure? - ✔✔"First Aid"
or "Statement of Practical Treatment"
✔✔First Aid procedures for oral exposure - ✔✔Rinse mouth if not swallowed, drink at
least 1 quart of water to dilute
✔✔First Aid procedures for dermal exposure - ✔✔Remove clothing and drench skin,
shower, gently dry, loosely cover burns with dry cloth
✔✔First Aid procedures for inhalation - ✔✔Carry person out to fresh air, lie down and
loosen clothing, keep warm and quiet, keep chin up
✔✔First Aid procedures for eye exposure - ✔✔Act quickly, hold open lids and wash with
water, do not add chemicals or drugs to water unless directed
✔✔What to do when someone goes into shock - ✔✔Lie flat on back with legs up, warm
but do not overheat, quiet and reassure person
✔✔Phytoxicity - ✔✔Damage to plants
✔✔Volatility - ✔✔Tendency for pesticide to turn into gas or vapor
✔✔Drift - ✔✔Movement of pesticide in air and wind
✔✔Runoff - ✔✔Surface movement of pesticide off site
✔✔Secondary Poisoning - ✔✔Predators ingest pest exposed to pesticides
, ✔✔Point-Source Pollution - ✔✔Pollution that comes from a specific identifiable place or
location (ex: spill)
✔✔Nonpoint-Source pollution - ✔✔pollution from a widespread area
✔✔Water table - ✔✔Boundary between the saturated zone and unsaturated zone of soil
✔✔Where on label can you find info regarding surface water and groundwater
protection? - ✔✔"Precautionary Statements"
✔✔Four mechanisms of pesticide resistance - ✔✔Reduced uptake, metabolic
resistance, target site insensitivity, behavioral change
✔✔Four practices that are the foundation of resistance management - ✔✔Use an
integrated pest management plan, use pesticides when needed, apply pesticides at
labeled rates, rotate pesticides with different modes of actions
✔✔Goal of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) - ✔✔Prevent pests from reaching
economically or aesthetically damaging levels with least risk to people, property, or the
environment
✔✔Federal law and agency that governs the production, sale, and use of pesticides -
✔✔FIFRA (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act), Enforced by the EPA
✔✔Section 24C Registration - ✔✔Special Local Need Registration
✔✔Section 18 Registration - ✔✔Emergency exemption from registration. Addresses
pests for which no pesticides are registered
✔✔Steps EPA can take if laws are violated or pesticide is deemed unsafe -
✔✔Commercial: $5000 for each offence, might be a warning. Applicator up to $25K and
year prison. Producer up to $50K and year in prison. Private Applicator: Warning, $1000
each offense after
✔✔Design details of storage facility that helps reduce risk of or damage from pesticide
spills or fires - ✔✔Sloped or bermed floor or equipment with a sump that can contain at
least 25% of liquid stored there. Build of impermeable and free of cracks or joins
✔✔4C's of spill response - ✔✔Control spill, Contain spill, Contact Authorities, Cleanup
spill
✔✔Band application - ✔✔Apply in parallel strips as in row crops, not whole;e field
ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔What info on the label can help you recognize and respond to an exposure? -
✔✔Action to take in regard to a specific exposure, notes for a doctor, hotlines to contact
✔✔Where on label can you find what to do in the event of an exposure? - ✔✔"First Aid"
or "Statement of Practical Treatment"
✔✔First Aid procedures for oral exposure - ✔✔Rinse mouth if not swallowed, drink at
least 1 quart of water to dilute
✔✔First Aid procedures for dermal exposure - ✔✔Remove clothing and drench skin,
shower, gently dry, loosely cover burns with dry cloth
✔✔First Aid procedures for inhalation - ✔✔Carry person out to fresh air, lie down and
loosen clothing, keep warm and quiet, keep chin up
✔✔First Aid procedures for eye exposure - ✔✔Act quickly, hold open lids and wash with
water, do not add chemicals or drugs to water unless directed
✔✔What to do when someone goes into shock - ✔✔Lie flat on back with legs up, warm
but do not overheat, quiet and reassure person
✔✔Phytoxicity - ✔✔Damage to plants
✔✔Volatility - ✔✔Tendency for pesticide to turn into gas or vapor
✔✔Drift - ✔✔Movement of pesticide in air and wind
✔✔Runoff - ✔✔Surface movement of pesticide off site
✔✔Secondary Poisoning - ✔✔Predators ingest pest exposed to pesticides
, ✔✔Point-Source Pollution - ✔✔Pollution that comes from a specific identifiable place or
location (ex: spill)
✔✔Nonpoint-Source pollution - ✔✔pollution from a widespread area
✔✔Water table - ✔✔Boundary between the saturated zone and unsaturated zone of soil
✔✔Where on label can you find info regarding surface water and groundwater
protection? - ✔✔"Precautionary Statements"
✔✔Four mechanisms of pesticide resistance - ✔✔Reduced uptake, metabolic
resistance, target site insensitivity, behavioral change
✔✔Four practices that are the foundation of resistance management - ✔✔Use an
integrated pest management plan, use pesticides when needed, apply pesticides at
labeled rates, rotate pesticides with different modes of actions
✔✔Goal of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) - ✔✔Prevent pests from reaching
economically or aesthetically damaging levels with least risk to people, property, or the
environment
✔✔Federal law and agency that governs the production, sale, and use of pesticides -
✔✔FIFRA (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act), Enforced by the EPA
✔✔Section 24C Registration - ✔✔Special Local Need Registration
✔✔Section 18 Registration - ✔✔Emergency exemption from registration. Addresses
pests for which no pesticides are registered
✔✔Steps EPA can take if laws are violated or pesticide is deemed unsafe -
✔✔Commercial: $5000 for each offence, might be a warning. Applicator up to $25K and
year prison. Producer up to $50K and year in prison. Private Applicator: Warning, $1000
each offense after
✔✔Design details of storage facility that helps reduce risk of or damage from pesticide
spills or fires - ✔✔Sloped or bermed floor or equipment with a sump that can contain at
least 25% of liquid stored there. Build of impermeable and free of cracks or joins
✔✔4C's of spill response - ✔✔Control spill, Contain spill, Contact Authorities, Cleanup
spill
✔✔Band application - ✔✔Apply in parallel strips as in row crops, not whole;e field
