LOWA Pesticide Applicators License - Core
Manual Questions & Answers
1.Restricted Use Pesticides: A pesticide that poses more risk and could
cause some human injury or environmental damage even when used
as directed on the label.
2.Commercial applicators: Persons who apply or use a pesticide or
device on any property of another person for compensation.
3.Public applicators: Persons who apply pesticides as part of their duties
as employees of a state agency, county, municipal corporation, or other
governmental agency.
4.Noncommercial applicators: Persons who apply restricted use
pesticides on land or property owned, rented, or leased by the
applicator or the applicator's employer.
5.Private applicators: Persons who apply any restricted use pesticides for
the production of an agricultural commodity on property owned or
rented by themselves or their employers, or on the property of other
agricultural producers with whom they trade services.
6.Certified handlers: Persons employed by a licensed commercial
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, applicator, non- commercial applicator, public applicator, or pesticide
dealer who handle pesticides in other than unopened containers for the
purpose of preparing, mixing, or loading pesticides for application by
another person, repackaging bulk pesticides, or dispos- ing of pesticide-
related wastes from these activities.
7.Certified applicator: A person certified by the IDALS to use
pesticides as a private, public, or commercial applicator.
8.Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA): Regulates
the production, transporation, sale, use, and disposal of all pesticides.
9.Residues: Pesticides may remain in small amounts in or on fruits,
vegetables, grains, other foods, and animal feed. Measure in ppm
(parts per million), ppb, ppt.
10.Tolerances: Allowable residue levels; Safe tolerance: reasonable
certainty of no harm
11.Federal Food. Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA): Federal law regulating
the amount of pesticide residues contained on commodities and food.
12.Application rate: The amount of pesticide applied to a site; usually
expressed as a liquid or dry measure per unit area.
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Manual Questions & Answers
1.Restricted Use Pesticides: A pesticide that poses more risk and could
cause some human injury or environmental damage even when used
as directed on the label.
2.Commercial applicators: Persons who apply or use a pesticide or
device on any property of another person for compensation.
3.Public applicators: Persons who apply pesticides as part of their duties
as employees of a state agency, county, municipal corporation, or other
governmental agency.
4.Noncommercial applicators: Persons who apply restricted use
pesticides on land or property owned, rented, or leased by the
applicator or the applicator's employer.
5.Private applicators: Persons who apply any restricted use pesticides for
the production of an agricultural commodity on property owned or
rented by themselves or their employers, or on the property of other
agricultural producers with whom they trade services.
6.Certified handlers: Persons employed by a licensed commercial
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, applicator, non- commercial applicator, public applicator, or pesticide
dealer who handle pesticides in other than unopened containers for the
purpose of preparing, mixing, or loading pesticides for application by
another person, repackaging bulk pesticides, or dispos- ing of pesticide-
related wastes from these activities.
7.Certified applicator: A person certified by the IDALS to use
pesticides as a private, public, or commercial applicator.
8.Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA): Regulates
the production, transporation, sale, use, and disposal of all pesticides.
9.Residues: Pesticides may remain in small amounts in or on fruits,
vegetables, grains, other foods, and animal feed. Measure in ppm
(parts per million), ppb, ppt.
10.Tolerances: Allowable residue levels; Safe tolerance: reasonable
certainty of no harm
11.Federal Food. Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA): Federal law regulating
the amount of pesticide residues contained on commodities and food.
12.Application rate: The amount of pesticide applied to a site; usually
expressed as a liquid or dry measure per unit area.
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