Oregon Statutes 634.036 – When pesticide is adulterated
A pesticide shall be deemed to be adulterated if:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 634.036
- Defoliant: which means any substance or mixture of substances intended for causing the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant with or without causing abscission;
(b) 'Desiccant' which means any substance or mixture of substances intended for artificially accelerating the drying of plant tissue;
(c) 'Fungicide' which means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any fungus;
(d) 'Herbicide' which means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any weed;
(e) 'Insecticide' which means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any insects which may be present in any environment whatsoever;
(f) 'Nematicide' which means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating nematodes;
(g) 'Plant regulator' which means any substance or mixture of substances intended, through physiological action, to accelerate or retard the rate of growth or rate of maturation or to otherwise alter the behavior of ornamental or crop plants or the produce thereof, but does not include substances to the extent that they are intended as plant nutrients, trace elements, nutritional chemicals, plant inoculants or soil amendments; or
(h) Any substance, or mixture of substances intended to be used for defoliating plants or for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating all insects, plant fungi, weeds, rodents, predatory animals or any other form of plant or animal life which is, or which the department declares to be a pest, which may infest or be detrimental to vegetation, humans, animals, or be present in any environment thereof. See Oregon Statutes 634.006
- Professed standard of quality: means a plain and true statement of the name and percentage of each active ingredient and the total percentage of all inert ingredients contained in any pesticide. See Oregon Statutes 634.006
(1) It is a pesticide other than a herbicide, defoliant or desiccant, is intended for use on vegetation and contains any substance which is injurious to such vegetation when used as directed under normal growing conditions.
(2) The strength or purity of the pesticide is below the purported or professed standard of quality as expressed in its labeling, or any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for any ingredient of the pesticide, or any valuable constituent thereof has been omitted wholly or in part.
(3) The contents of the package or container of pesticide do not meet their purported standard of quality in any other manner.
(4) The contents of the package or container represented to be a pesticide are not definitely effective for the purpose for which recommended. [1973 c.341 § 12]
[Repealed by 1953 c.118 § 2]