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2025 California Code
Food and Agricultural Code - FAC
DIVISION 7 - AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS, LIVESTOCK REMEDIES, AND COMMERCIAL FEEDS
CHAPTER 2 - Pesticides
ARTICLE 1 - Definitions
Section 12753.
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CA Food & Agri Code § 12753 (2025)
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12753. “Pesticide” includes any of the following:
(a) Any spray adjuvant.
(b) Any substance, or mixture of substances which is intended to be used for defoliating plants, regulating plant growth, or for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, as defined in Section 12754.5, which may infest or be detrimental to vegetation, man, animals, or households, or be present in any agricultural or nonagricultural environment whatsoever.
(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 361, Sec. 27. Effective January 1, 1997.)
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