What Are Inert Ingredients?

A pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest. [NALT]

Insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, disinfectants and any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying or controlling any pest, including vectors of human or animal disease, unwanted species of plants or animals causing harm during or otherwise interfering with the production, processing, storage, transport or marketing of food, agricultural commodities, wood and wood products or animal feedstuffs, or substances which may be administered to animals for the control of insects, arachnids or other pests in or on their bodies. [AGROVOC]

The University of Florida's Pesticide Information and Education Program provides information, educational programs, and materials to:

• Persons who use pesticides as a part of their livelihood
• Consumers with questions about use and impact of pesticides in their daily lives
• Faculty and students
• Decision makers, such as local, state, and federal government regulators and legislators