ADULTERATED: A qualifier for a pesticide that presents a quantity of the active ingredient different from the percentage declared on the label, or if any of its components have been substituted totally or partially, or it contains undeclared ingredients.
STORAGE: The action of storing, gathering, keeping, guarding, or depositing pesticides in warehouses, storehouses, customs facilities, or vehicles under the conditions stipulated in this Regulation.
MARGINAL NOTE: A modification to an original registration in accordance with the provisions of Articles 34 and 35 of this Regulation; said registration shall keep the original number.
AGRICULTURAL APPLICATION: Any manual or mechanical operation intended to carry out the application of pesticide formulations for agricultural purposes.
CONVENTIONAL APPLICATION: A system of pesticide application in which the volume of mixture applied per hectare covers the crop without reaching the point of runoff (more than 20 liters per Ha).
LOW-VOLUME APPLICATION: A method of pesticide application in which the volume of mixture applied per hectare covers the crop without reaching the point of runoff (5 to 20 liters per Ha).
ULTRA-LOW-VOLUME APPLICATION: A method of pesticide application in which the volume applied per hectare, without any dilution, is 1.5 liters per hectare or less.
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PESTICIDE CLASS: Determines if the product is an insecticide, fungicide, herbicide, nematicide, or others.
ADJUVANTS: A chemical substance that contributes, assists, or helps to perform a better action when mixed correctly with a pesticide.
SPECIAL COMBAT: Combat of a pest or disease declared an emergency by the Ministry.
COMMITTEE: Comisión Nacional Asesora para el Uso de Plaguicidas, legally established by Executive Decree.
MEDIAN LETHAL CONCENTRATION (LC 50): The concentration of a substance that causes 50% mortality in test animals, usually under exposure for a determined period. It is expressed in milligrams or grams per liter or cubic meter of air, or in parts per million in water.
CROP OF ECONOMIC VALUE: Any crop with commercial value.
CONFISCATION: Confiscation consists of the loss of property experienced by the owner in favor of the State of the material goods that have been the cause or instrument of an infraction, in the cases indicated in this Regulation.
DSTMT: Departamento de registro y control de sustancias tóxicas y medicina del trabajo, of the Ministry of Health.
DECONTAMINATION OF USED CONTAINERS: Procedure by which the pesticide residues remaining in used containers are adequately decontaminated or denatured; following the recommendations of the respective regulation.
DESTRUCTION OF CONTAINERS: A method used for the destruction of empty containers that held pesticides, following the recommendations of the Ministry of Health.
MEDIAN LETHAL DOSE (LD 50): The quantity of a toxic substance that produces 50% mortality in test animals, in a given time, usually 24 hours, under special conditions. It is LETHAL EFFECT ON ORGANISMS: The lethal effect that a product has when applied to living beings.
PRODUCT EFFICACY: The degree of lethal effect that a product has in relation to the target organism (insects, mites, fungi, etc.).
COMPANY: The natural or legal person directly responsible for contracting and executing services for the manufacturing, formulation, repacking, mixing, registration, application, and use of pesticides.
DISEASE: An alteration of the normal physiological functioning of a plant, whatever its origin, harmful to the development and life of the plant and to its productivity.
APPLICATION EQUIPMENT: A device used for the application of substances for agricultural use for the combat of pests and diseases in plants and animals, whether in liquid or solid form, in the form of mist or aerosols, by any of the known application methods.
MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT: Understood as the equipment necessary for the transfer, packaging, both in the factory as in the formulating plant or in pesticide application activities.
LABEL: Printed material or graphic inscription, written in legible characters, that identifies and describes the product contained in the container it accompanies.
MANUFACTURER: A natural or legal person dedicated to the synthesis and manufacturing of pesticides.
FORMULATOR: A natural or legal person dedicated to the formulation of agricultural pesticides and related substances.
FORMULATION: Any product made with pesticides that contains one or more active ingredients uniformly distributed in one or more inert carriers, with or without the aid of formula conditioners.
FUMIGATION: Application of pesticides in gaseous form in an enclosed space.
IMPORTER: That company or natural person that imports agricultural pesticides and related substances that comply with the provisions of this Regulation.
ACTIVE INGREDIENT: Any chemical substance or substance of biological origin in a solid state, capable of preventing, repelling, controlling, attracting, mitigating, and destroying insects, weeds, fungi, bacteria, nematodes, rodents, and other forms of animal or plant life.
ADDITIONAL INGREDIENT: Any nutrient, emulsifier, dispersant, humectant, adherent, plant growth regulator, or other, added to the pesticide or its mixtures that is not active against pests and diseases, which the manufacturer adds for technical reasons.
INERT INGREDIENT: Any substance without biological activity against pests and diseases, which is used as a vehicle for the active ingredient or as a conditioner in a formulation. It is not considered inert from a toxicological viewpoint.
ACUTE POISONING: A clinical picture or state of illness from exposure to a pesticide in which the adverse effects occur shortly after a single ingestion or exposure, or multiple repeated ones within a 24-hour period.
CHRONIC POISONING: A clinical picture or state of illness in which the adverse effects occur as a result of repeated exposure to a pesticide over the medium and long term.
DERMAL POISONING: A clinical picture or state of illness in which the adverse effects occur as a result of the absorption of a pesticide through the skin.
INHALATION POISONING: A clinical picture or state of illness in which the manifestations of toxic effects in man or animal are caused by a pesticide absorbed through the respiratory tract.
ORAL POISONING: A clinical picture or state of illness in which the toxic effects are produced by a pesticide when it is introduced into an organism by ingestion.
REGISTRATION BOOK: A book legally established by the Ministry where the approved registration of a pesticide is recorded; this record shall state the registration number, date, brand, and generic name of the product.
PRESENTATION BOOK: A book legally established and under the charge of the Ministry, where the application for registration of a pesticide will be noted. The entries shall have consecutive numbering, noting the provisions of Article 21.
SPECIAL BATCH: Any product prepared with a determined formulation, whose components have been duly registered and which is prepared for specific purposes at the request of a natural or legal person.
MINISTRY: Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería.
MINISTRIES: The Ministerios de Agricultura y Ganadería, and Salud.
TRADE NAME: The name under which the producing company identifies a specific product for its commercialization, approved by the Registro de Marcas.
GENERIC OR COMMON NAME: The common name of the pesticide, approved by some official international standardization body.
CHEMICAL NAME: Refers to the name of the molecules of the active ingredient of a product.
PEST: Any living organism that competes with or causes damage to plants or their products and that can be considered as such due to its economic, invasive, or extensive nature.
PESTICIDE: Any product or mixture of products of a chemical nature intended to combat, control, prevent, mitigate, repel, or regulate the action of any form of animal or plant life that affects plants and their harvests. By extension, chemical substances or mixtures of substances of a chemical nature used as growth regulators, defoliants, and repellents are included.
FORMULATED PESTICIDE: A commercial product that has been prepared following established quality standards.
RESTRICTED-SALE AND USE PESTICIDE: Any pesticide whose use is limited or whose conditions of use are specified by the Ministries.
SPECIAL EXPERIMENTATION PERMIT: A permit granted by the Ministry to a natural or legal person, through which they are authorized to carry out trials, research, and experimentation with agricultural chemical products for the combat of plant pests and diseases, for the protection of the environment, for the purposes of its subsequent registration.
OPERATING PERMIT: A permit that commercial establishments must obtain, issued by the Ministry of Health, after having fulfilled all the requirements requested in the regulations in force.
GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE: The set of officially approved actions that appropriately integrate available resources to create favorable environmental conditions for crops without producing harmful effects on the environment and users.
TECHNICAL PRODUCT OR MATERIAL: A compound with a purity less than that of a material designated as chemically pure, used for the formulation of pesticides.
PROGRAM: Programa de Insumos Agrícolas, of the Dirección de Protección Agropecuaria of the Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería.
ADVERTISING: Any activity, action, or act in mass media or other means, whose purpose is to promote and stimulate the sale and use of pesticides.
PROFESSIONAL PRESCRIPTION: A document issued by a professional in agricultural sciences, registered and authorized for this purpose by the Colegio de Ingenieros Agrónomos, through which they recommend an agricultural chemical product or a combat method for use in agriculture. Said prescription must be issued in accordance with what is established in this regard by the Colegio de Ingenieros Agrónomos.
REPACKER, REPACKAGER: A natural or legal person authorized by the registration holder and the Ministries to subdivide or add, for commercial purposes, a legally registered pesticide into packages smaller or larger than the original, in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation.
MANAGER: A professional in agricultural sciences who, in accordance with the laws, the Regulation of Managers, and the due authorization of the Board of Directors of the Colegio de Ingenieros Agrónomos, assumes the technical responsibility for those who require their services.
REGISTRATION: The legal procedure by which any pesticide is authorized by the Ministry for its sale and use, in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.
COMPANY REGISTRATION: The legal procedure by which a natural or legal person is authorized for all the effects of this regulation before the Ministry.
REGISTRANT: A natural or legal person who requests the registration of a pesticide with the Ministry.
PESTICIDE REMNANT: A small quantity of pesticide that remains in the empty container, or a small quantity that is not used due to mechanical limitations of the application equipment or for other technical reasons.
SEIZURE: The action of keeping, under prohibition of transfer, use, or consumption, in secure conditions, whether by transferring them to the Ministry's warehouses or under security seals at the commercial premises, material goods that have failed to comply with this Regulation, for their subsequent confiscation or release, as appropriate.
SEAL OF GUARANTEE: A seal, stamp, tag, safety cap, or any other container sealing system that guarantees its identity and the originality of the product.
TOLERANCE: The maximum quantity of chemical residues of pesticides or their metabolites whose presence is legally permitted in products for human or animal consumption.
TOXICITY: The property of a substance and its metabolic or degradation products of causing, at determined doses and in contact with the skin or mucous membranes, damage to health after being in contact with the skin, mucous membranes, and/or having entered the biological organism by any route.
TYPE OF PESTICIDE: The chemical group to which a product belongs.
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