[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: 40CFR180.2]

[Page 318]
 
                   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 A_Definitions and Interpretative Regulations
 
Sec. 180.2  Pesticide chemicals considered safe.

    (a) As a general rule, pesticide chemicals other than benzaldehyde 
(when used as a bee repellant in the harvesting of honey), ferrous 
sulfate, lime, lime-sulfur, potassium sorbate, sodium carbonate, sodium 
hypochlorite, sulfur, and when used as plant desiccants, sodium 
metasilicate (not to exceed 4 percent by weight in aqueous solution) and 
when used as postharvest fungicide, oil of lemon, and oil of orange are 
not for the purposes of section 408(a) of the Act generally recognized 
as safe.
    (b) Upon written request, the Registration Division will advise 
interested persons whether a pesticide chemical should be considered as 
poisonous or deleterious, or one not generally recognized by qualified 
experts, as safe.
    (c) The training and experience necessary to qualify experts to 
evaluate the safety of pesticide chemicals for the purposes of section 
408(a) of the Act are essentially the same as training and experience 
necessary to qualify experts to serve on advisory committees prescribed 
by section 408(g) of the Act. (See Sec. 180.11.)

[60 FR 42460, Aug. 16, 1995, as amended at 63 FR 57066, Oct. 26, 1998; 
68 FR 18552, Apr. 16, 2003]