For purposes of this part, subsection (a) of § 23-61a and sections 23-61b and 23-61f:

(a) “Active ingredient” means:

(1) In the case of a pesticide other than a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, an ingredient which will prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate any pest;

(2) In the case of a plant regulator, an ingredient which, through physiological action, will accelerate or retard the rate of growth or rate of maturation or otherwise alter the behavior of ornamental or crop plants or the product thereof;

(3) In the case of a defoliant, an ingredient which will cause the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant; and

(4) In the case of a desiccant, an ingredient which will artificially accelerate the drying of plant tissue;

(b) “Adulterated” applies to any pesticide if:

(1) Its strength or purity falls below the professed standard of quality as expressed on its labeling under which it is sold;

(2) Any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the pesticide; or

(3) Any valuable constituent of the pesticide has been wholly or in part abstracted;

(c) “Animal” means all vertebrate and invertebrate species, including but not limited to man and other mammals, birds, fish, and shellfish;

(d) “Certified applicator” means any individual who is certified under § 22a-54;

(e) “Private applicator” means a certified applicator who uses or supervises the use of any pesticide, which is classified for restricted use for the purpose of producing any agricultural commodity, on property owned or rented by the applicator or the applicator’s employer or if applied without compensation other than trading of personal services between producers of agricultural commodities on the property of another person: A pesticide shall be construed to be applied under the direct supervision of a private applicator if it is applied by a competent person on property owned or rented by a private applicator acting under the instructions and control of a private applicator who is available if and when needed;

(f) “Commercial applicator” means any individual, whether or not such individual is a private applicator with respect to some uses, who uses or supervises the use of (1) any restricted use pesticides, or (2) any pesticide on property not owned or rented by such individual or such individual’s employer;

(g) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection;

(h) “Defoliant” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for causing the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant, with or without causing abscission;

(i) “Desiccant” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for artificially accelerating the drying of plant tissue;

(j) “Device” means any instrument or contrivance which uses pesticides and is intended for trapping, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest or any other form of plant or animal life; but not including equipment used for the application of pesticides when sold separately therefrom;

(k) “Environment” includes the ecosystem of water, air, land, plants, man and other animals, and the interrelationships which exist among these;

(l) “Imminent hazard” means a situation which exists when the continued use of a pesticide, during the time required for a cancellation proceeding as provided in § 22a-52, would be likely to result in unreasonable adverse effects on the environment or will involve unreasonable hazard to the survival of a species declared endangered by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the provisions of 83 Stat. 275 (P.L. 91-135), as may be amended from time to time;

(m) “Inert ingredient” means an ingredient which is not active;

(n) “Ingredient statement” means a statement which contains the name and percentage of each active ingredient, and the total percentage of all inert ingredients, in the pesticide; and a statement of the percentages of total and water soluble arsenic, calculated as elementary arsenic, if any;

(o) “Insect” means any of the numerous small invertebrate animals generally having the body more or less obviously segmented, for the most part belonging to the class insecta, comprising six-legged, usually winged forms, including, but not limited to, beetles, bugs, bees, flies, and to other allied classes of arthropods whose members are wingless and usually have more than six legs, including, but not limited to, spiders, mites, ticks, centipedes, and wood lice;

(p) “Label” means the written, printed, or graphic matter on, or attached to, the pesticide or device or any of its containers or wrappers;

(q) “Labeling” means all labels and all other written, printed or graphic matter, accompanying the pesticide or device or to which reference is made on the label or in literature accompanying the pesticide or device;

(r) A pesticide is misbranded if:

(1) Its labeling bears any statement, design, or graphic representation relative thereto or to its ingredients which is false or misleading in any particular;

(2) It is contained in a package or other container or wrapping which does not conform to the standards established by 86 Stat. 979 (P.L. 92-516), as may be amended from time to time;

(3) It is an imitation of, or is offered for sale under the name of another pesticide;

(s) “Microorganism” means any microscopic organism including but not limited to alga, bacterium, fungus, and virus except those on or in living man or other animals and those on or in processed food, beverage or pharmaceuticals;

(t) “Nematode” means invertebrate animals of the phylum nemathelminthes and class nematoda, that is, unsegmented round worms with elongated, fusiform, or sac-like bodies covered with cuticle and inhabiting soil, water, plants, or plant parts which may also be called nemas or eelworms;

(u) “Person” means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, government entity, or any organized group of persons whether incorporated or not;

(v) “Pest” has the meaning provided in 40 C.F.R. § 152.5, as amended from time to time;

(w) “Pesticide” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, or any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant;

(x) “Plant regulator” means any substance or mixture of substances intended, through physiological action, for accelerating or retarding the rate of growth or rate of maturation, or for otherwise altering the behavior of plants or the produce thereof, but shall not include substances to the extent that they are intended as plant nutrients, trace elements, nutritional chemicals, plant inoculants, and soil amendments which are not for pest destruction and are nontoxic, nonpoisonous in the undiluted packaged concentration;

(y) “Registrant” means a person who has registered any pesticide pursuant to the provisions of this chapter;

(z) “Unreasonable adverse effects on the environment” means any unreasonable risk to man or the environment, taking into account the economic, social, and environmental costs and benefits of the use of any pesticide;

(aa) “Weed” means any plant which grows where not wanted;

(bb) “FIFRA” means the federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, 7 USC 135 et seq., as amended by the federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act of 1972, 7 USC 136 et seq., and as may be amended from time to time;

(cc) “Restricted use pesticide” means any pesticide or pesticide use classified as restricted by the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency or by the commissioner; and

(dd) “Integrated pest management” means use of all available pest control techniques including judicious use of pesticides, when warranted, to maintain a pest population at or below an acceptable level, while decreasing the unnecessary use of pesticides.