Iowa C ore Manual 200 Questions with Complete Solutions 100% Verified
2024/2025
types of certification - Correct Answer commercial, public, noncommercial, private, and certified handlers what are commercial applicators - Correct Answer persons who apply or use a pesticide or device on any property of another person for compensation what are public applicators - Correct Answer persons who apply pesticides as part of their duties as employees of a state agency, county, municipal corporations, or other gov agency what are noncommercial applicators - Correct Answer persons who apply restricted use pesticides on land or property owned, rented, or leased what are private applicators - Correct Answer persons who apply any restricted use pesticide for the production of an ag commodity on property owned or rented by themselves or their employers what are certified handlers - Correct Answer persons employed by a licensed commercial applicators who handle pesticides in other than unopened containers for the purpose of preparing, mixing, or loading pesticides for application by another person T or F: a pesticide license is not valid without a certified applicator - Correct Answer true what are the lengths of certifications - Correct Answer one and three year if you apply pesticides for a licensed company, what is required of you? - Correct Answer be certified and must be listed as an applicator under a current iowa pesticide applicator license what happens after passing the exam - Correct Answer you enter a three year qualification cycle 1 / 3
how can you renew your certification - Correct Answer testing every third year of certification or attending approved CIC courses every year for each category if you choose re certification by testing what does IDALS require you do to do? - Correct Answer pass the core exam as well as the category exams how many CICs do you need to attend if you choose to recertify by CICs? - Correct Answer at least one every year but possibly more what happens if you miss a CIC - Correct Answer you have to get re certified by the exam what agency regulates pesticide use in the US - Correct Answer EPA Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) - Correct Answer 1947, regulates the production, transportation, sale, use, and disposal of all pesticides what are pesticide registration decisions based on - Correct Answer detailed assessment of the potential effects of a product on human health and the environment when used T or F: EPA registers each pesticide product for each approved use - Correct Answer true who are the only people who can purchase or apply restricted use products - Correct Answer certified applicators who is responsible for certifying pesticide applicators in iowa - Correct Answer IDALS pesticide bureau what are the reasons EPA might cancel or amend a pesticide registration - Correct Answer if they determine that the current use may cause unreasonable adverse effects what happens in pesticide re-registration - Correct Answer FIFRA requires the EPA to review older pesticides to consider their human and environment effects 2 / 3
what can violations of the legal provisions established in FIFRA bring about - Correct Answer civil penalties that can be at much as 6500, criminal penalties that could be 25000 or one year in prison or both residues - Correct Answer whatever remains; in the case of pesticides, those amounts that remain on or in foods when people buy and use them using pounds as measurement, what does 50 ppm mean? - Correct Answer 50 pounds of pesticide in a million pounds of product Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) - Correct Answer EPA sets allowable residue levels in food production authorized by FFDCA what is a safe tolerance defined as - Correct Answer a level at which there is a reasonable certainty of no harm from the exposure tolerance - Correct Answer allowable residue levels on food supply, the residue level that triggers enforcement actions whats the most important thing on the label concerning food safety - Correct Answer instructions telling the correct application rate and the preharvest interval food quality protection act - Correct Answer established a single, health based standard to be used when assessing the risks of pesticide residues in food or feed how is the endangered species act (ESA) related to pesticide use - Correct Answer may directly or indirectly, through drift and runoff, affect endangered and threatened species in their habitat worker protection standard (WPS) - Correct Answer set of regulations from the EPA to reduce the risk of pesticide poisonings, injuries, and exposure to ag workers and handlers who does the WPS protect - Correct Answer employees on farms, forests, nurseries and greenhouses
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