[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 20]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR180.2]

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                   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 
chloride, 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, citric acid, 
fumaric acid, 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]