{"id":304,"date":"2017-02-21T12:12:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T12:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2017-02-21T12:12:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T12:12:56","slug":"yipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/yipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Yipes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-305\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/EPA-letter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/EPA-letter-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Copy of a ltter from the EPA on EPA letterhead\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the letter that was sent recently ordering the distributor to stop selling product to a company that was selling an improperly (illegal) labeled pesticide.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yipes! Apparently the EPA does pursue actions against tiny online <a href=\"https:\/\/freshwaterorganics.com\/collections\/insecticides\">stores<\/a> that sell diatomaceous earth as a pesticide. So, my labeling and rule finding efforts are worth the time. The motivation for the rules is reasonable. If I was selling something that wasn&#8217;t also approved by the FDA for human consumption, the rules would be serving their purpose. In my case the rules feel like a barrier to commerce. It is a journey to learn how to legally sell this dietary supplement as an ant killer but I am glad I am on the path because, You Need Diatoms!!<\/p>\n<p>Basically it isn\u2019t anything about the substance that makes it a pesticide, it is the labeling and how I tell you to use the substance:<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/pesticide-labels\/label-review-training-module-1-label-basics-page-3\">description<\/a> from the EPA website<\/p>\n<p>Notice that the intended use of a product is critical to determining that it is a pesticide. EPA considers the following three areas when evaluating a product&#8217;s intent:<br \/>\n\u2022 Claims. Does the product&#8217;s label or distributor claim that the product can or should be used as a pesticide?<br \/>\n\u2022 Composition. Is the product composed of one or more active ingredients that have no commercially valuable use other than for a pesticidal purpose?<br \/>\n\u2022 Knowledge that the substances will be used as a pesticide. Does the distributor know that the product will be used for a pesticidal purpose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yipes! Apparently the EPA does pursue actions against tiny online stores that sell diatomaceous earth as a pesticide. So, my labeling and rule finding efforts are worth the time. The motivation for the rules is reasonable. If I was selling something that wasn&#8217;t also approved by the FDA for human consumption, the rules would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}