[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 22]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR180.1016]

[Page 553]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 180_TOLERANCES AND EXEMPTIONS FROM TOLERANCES FOR PESTICIDE CHEMICALS 
IN FOOD--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart D_Exemptions From Tolerances
 
Sec. 180.1016  Ethylene; exemption from the requirement of a tolerance.

    Ethylene is exempted from the requirement of a tolerance for 
residues when:
    (a) For all food commodities, it is used as a plant regulator on 
plants, seeds, or cuttings and on all food commodities after harvest and 
when applied in accordance with good agricultural practices.
    (b) Injected into the soil to cause premature germination of 
witchweed in bean (lima and string), cabbage, cantaloupe, collard, corn, 
cotton, cucumber, eggplant, okra, onion, pasture grass, pea (field and 
sweet), peanut, pepper, potato, sweet potato, sorghum, soybean, squash, 
tomato, turnip, and watermelon fields as part of the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture witchweed control program.

[39 FR 33315, Sept. 17, 1974, as amended at 40 FR 19477, May 5, 1975; 64 
FR 31505, June 11, 1999]