Pesticide Applicators License - Core
Manual Exam And Correct Answer
Restricted Use Pesticides - Answer -✔✔A pesticide that poses more risk and could
cause some human injury or environmental damage even when used as directed on the
label.
Commercial applicators - Answer -✔✔Persons who apply or use a pesticide or device
on any property of another person for compensation.
Public applicators - Answer -✔✔Persons who apply pesticides as part of their duties as
employees of a state agency, county, municipal corporation, or other governmental
agency.
Noncommercial applicators - Answer -✔✔Persons who apply restricted use pesticides
on land or property owned, rented, or leased by the applicator or the applicator's
employer.
Private applicators - Answer -✔✔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.
Certified handlers - Answer -✔✔Persons employed by a licensed commercial applicator,
noncommercial 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 disposing
of pesticide-related wastes from these activities.
Certified applicator - Answer -✔✔A person certified by the IDALS to use pesticides as a
private, public, or commercial applicator.
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) - Answer -✔✔Regulates
the production, transporation, sale, use, and disposal of all pesticides.
Residues - Answer -✔✔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.
Tolerances - Answer -✔✔Allowable residue levels; Safe tolerance: reasonable certainty
of no harm
Manual Exam And Correct Answer
Restricted Use Pesticides - Answer -✔✔A pesticide that poses more risk and could
cause some human injury or environmental damage even when used as directed on the
label.
Commercial applicators - Answer -✔✔Persons who apply or use a pesticide or device
on any property of another person for compensation.
Public applicators - Answer -✔✔Persons who apply pesticides as part of their duties as
employees of a state agency, county, municipal corporation, or other governmental
agency.
Noncommercial applicators - Answer -✔✔Persons who apply restricted use pesticides
on land or property owned, rented, or leased by the applicator or the applicator's
employer.
Private applicators - Answer -✔✔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.
Certified handlers - Answer -✔✔Persons employed by a licensed commercial applicator,
noncommercial 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 disposing
of pesticide-related wastes from these activities.
Certified applicator - Answer -✔✔A person certified by the IDALS to use pesticides as a
private, public, or commercial applicator.
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) - Answer -✔✔Regulates
the production, transporation, sale, use, and disposal of all pesticides.
Residues - Answer -✔✔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.
Tolerances - Answer -✔✔Allowable residue levels; Safe tolerance: reasonable certainty
of no harm
