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The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) is the federal statute (found at 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.) that governs the registration, distribution, sale, and use of pesticides in the United States. The primary objective of FIFRA is to ensure that, when applied as instructed, pesticides will not generally cause unreasonable risk to human health or the environment. To reach this objective, FIFRA includes provisions that require EPA to establish several programs. See the Summary of Requirements section below for more about those programs.
With certain exceptions, a pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, or intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, or desiccant, or any nitrogen stabilizer. Among other things, FIFRA requires:
Below is a summary of the programs required by FIFRA: