[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 23]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR169.1]

[Page 238]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 169_BOOKS AND RECORDS OF PESTICIDE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION--Table of 
 
Sec. 169.1  Definitions.

    Terms used in this part shall have the meanings set forth for such 
terms in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, as 
amended. In addition, as used in this part, the following terms shall 
have the meanings set forth below:
    (a) Amount of pesticide or active ingredient. The term ``amount of 
pesticide or active ingredient'' means the weight or volume of the 
pesticide or active ingredient used in producing a pesticide expressed 
as weight for solid or semi-solid products and as weight or volume of 
liquid products.
    (b) Batch. The term ``batch'' means a quantity of a pesticide 
product or active ingredient used in producing a pesticide made in one 
operation or lot or if made in a continuous or semi-continuous process 
or cycle, the quantity produced during an interval of time to be 
specified by the producer.
    (c) Device. The term ``device'' means any device or class of device 
as defined by the Act and determined by the Administrator to be subject 
to the provisions of the Act.
    (d) Inability. The term ``inability'' means the incapacity of any 
person to maintain, furnish or permit access to any records under this 
Act and regulations, where such incapacity arises out of causes beyond 
the control and without the fault or negligence of such person. Such 
causes may include, but are not restricted to acts of God or of the 
public enemy, fires, floods, epidemics, quarantine restrictions, 
strikes, and unusually severe weather, but in every case, the failure 
must be beyond the control and without the fault or negligence of said 
person.
    (e) Producer. The term ``producer'' means the person, as defined by 
the Act, who produces or imports any pesticide or device or active 
ingredient used in producing a pesticide.