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VOLUME 13

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NUMBER 41

Washington, Saturday, February 28, 1948

RodenticideAct, and 162.6 and 162.9.
of the regulations issued thereunder, it will be necessary for herbicidal agricul Chapter I Production and Marketing Administration Standards, Inspec tural dusts or sprays dependent primarily upon 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, its tions, Marketing Practices salts or esters, to bear proper warning or caution statements to avoid injury to P art 162R egulations for the E nforce
vegetation. The following statements ment of the F ederal I nsecticide , are considered acceptable for the usual F ungicide , and R odenticide A ct types of materials when intended for WARNING OR CAUTION STATEMENTS FOR AG
normal usages.
RICULTURAL D USTS AND SPRAYS CONTAIN
For agricultural dusts containing 2,4ING 2 ,4 -DICHL OROPHENOXYACETIC ACID OR
dichlorophenoxyacetic acid or its salts ITS SALTS OR ESTERS 2 ,4 - D
"or esters: , Interpretation No. 2. Section 162.6 of C aution: Before using, consult agricul the regulations issued under the Federal tural authorities in your State. This dust Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide may drift for miles, even on quiet days, and Act provides, among other things, that Cause damage to susceptible plants such as beans, peas, etc. Use only where the label of every economic poison must cotton, there is no hazard of drift. Do not store contain a warning or caution statement near fertilizers, seeds, insecticides or fungi when necessary to prevent injury to liv cides. After use of this dust, do not use ing man and other vertebrate animals, same equipment for insecticides or fungi useful vegetation and useful invertebrate cides or give directions for cleaning the equipm ent.
animals.
Section 162.9 provides in part that the For agricultural spray materials con warning or caution statement must ap taining 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid or pear on the label in a place sufficiently its salts or esters:
prominent to warn the user, and must C aution: Avoid spray drift to susceptible state clearly and in non-technical lan plants th is product may injure cotton, guage the particular hazard involved in beans, aspeas, ornamentals, etc. Coarse the use of the economic poison and the sprays are less likely to drift. Thoroughly precautions to be taken to avoid acci clean spray equipment with a suitable chem
dent, injury, or damage.
ical cleaner before using for other purposes or do not use same spray equipment for Preparations containing 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid or its salts or esters, other purposes. Do not store near ferti commonly known as 2,4-D, when used as lizers, seeds, insecticides, or fungicides.
selective weed killers have been found In addition to the above cautions, under certain conditions to cause dam preparations containing the esters should age to valuable crops and other suscep bear a warning against the hazards .due tible plants. Dusts may drift for miles to their vapors, such as:
and injure plants at long distances from "Vapors from this product may injure sus the place of application. Sprays, if very ceptible plants in the immediate vicinity.
fine, may also drift for considerable dis The exact Wording of these cautions is tances. Experience has shown that coarse sprays can be used without undue not to be considered as mandatory. Other .hazard to nearby plants. The esters, wording which is equally informative and in addition, have a hazard due to .their which covers all of the same warnings volatility. The volatile material may equally effectively may be used. Further kill susceptible plants in the immediate more, this is not to be considered as ex vicinity of the place of application or empting a manufacturer from the use of storage. There is also possibility of dam additional cautions or warnings if they age to plants by contamination of seeds, aye necessary by reason of the special fertilizers, insecticides, or fungicides, or composition of the product, special uses from use of improperly cleaned dusting for which it is intended, or any other cir or spraying apparatus in spraying or cumstance.
dusting operations on susceptible plants.
The warning or caution statement In view of the hazards involved in the use of. such products, to comply with the must appear prominently, not crowded provisions of section 2u 2 d of the with other reading matter, and in type Continued on next page Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
_ TITLE 7 AGRICULTURE

CONTENTS
Agriculture Department
PaSe
See also Entomology and Plant Quarantine Bureau.
Rules and regulations:
Assistance funds; reapportion ment of non-food________ 1086
Enforcement of Federal Insecti cide, Fungicide, and Rodenti cide Act; dusts and sprays containing 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, etc------------- 1075
Limitation of shipments:
Arizona and California:
Lemons_______________
1084
Oranges__________________1085
Grapefruit in Arizona; Imperial County, Calif.; and Riv erside County, Calif., south, and east of San Gorgonio Pass :__________________ 1085
Oranges, grapefruit, and tan gerines in Florida----------- 1078
Milk handling in New Orleans, La., marketing area__ _____ 1079
Sugar quotas, administration__ 1076
Alien Property, Office of
Notices:
Vesting order ; Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd_________

1098

Civil Aeronautics Board
Rules and regulations:
Explosives and other dangerous articles, transportation_____

1087

Entomology and Plant Quaran tine Bureau
Proposed rule making:
White-fringed beetle quaran tine_____________________ 1088
Federal Communications Com mission
Notices:
Frequency service-allocations to non-government fixed and mobile services:
960 to 2100 megacycles-____
1000 to 13200 megacycles----Hearings, etc.:
Allegheny Broadcasting Corp.
et al__ ____________
Blackhawk Broadcasting Cff.
and WTAX, Inc________
Burlington-Graham Broad casting Co. WFNS_-----Cortland Broadcasting Co., Inc. WKRT__________
1075

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1094