"Adjuvant" means any substance which is added to a herbicide, a pesticide, or an insecticide to increase its potency.
"Agricultural production" means the same as defined in rule 701-200.1 (423).
"Food" includes vitamins, minerals, other nutritional food supplements, and hormones sold to promote the growth of livestock.
"Herbicide" means any substance intended to prevent, destroy, or retard the growth of plants including fungi. The term shall include preemergence, postemergence, lay-by, pasture, defoliant, and desiccant herbicides and fungicides.
"Insecticide" means any substance used to kill insects. Any substance used merely to repel insects is not an insecticide. Mechanical devices which are used to kill insects are not insecticides.
"Livestock" means the same as defined in rule 701-200.1 (423). For the purposes of this rule, "livestock" includes domesticated fowl.
"Medication" includes antibiotics or other similar drugs administered to livestock.
"Pesticide" means any substance which is used to kill rodents or smaller vermin, other than insects, such as nematodes, spiders, or bacteria. For the purposes of this rule, a disinfectant is a pesticide. Excluded from the term "pesticide" is any substance which merely repels pests or any device, such as a rat trap, which kills pests by mechanical action.
"Plants" means the same as defined in rule 701-200.1 (423).
"Surfactant" means a substance which is active on a surface.
This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code sections 423.3(5) and 423.3(16).
Iowa Admin. Code r. 701-214.9