What is the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)?
The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) regulates the sale, use, disposal, and handling of pesticides. Pesticide is broadly defined by the statute as any substance or mixture of substances intended to regulate, prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate any pest or plant. Nitrogen stabilizers may be exempt from FIFRA if they are distributed and sold solely to prevent or hinder the process of nitrification, denitrification, ammonia volatilization, or urease production through action affecting soil bacteria and for no other pesticidal purposes and meet some additional criteria. Pest is defined by the statute as any insect, rodent, nematode, fungus, weed, or any other terrestrial or aquatic plant or animal life or virus, bacteria, or other micro-organism not living on a human or other animal declared by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be a pest.
