Pesticides

definition

Pesticide means any substance intended for preventing, destroying, attracting, repelling, or controlling any pest including unwanted species of plants or animals during the production, storage, transport, distribution, and processing of food, agricultural commodities, or animal feeds or which may be administered to animals for the control of ectoparasites. The term includes substances intended for use as a plant-growth regulator, defoliant, desiccant, fruit thinning agent, or sprouting inhibitor and substances applied to crops either before or after harvest to protect the commodity from deterioration during storage and transport. 

Pesticides include, inter alia, insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, acaricides, growth regulators, semiochemicals, nematicides, molluscicides and repellents.

Pesticides contain active substances that can be of chemical or biological origin. The term normally excludes fertilizers, plant and animal nutrients, food additives and animal drugs.