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Pesticides refer to a broad class of chemicals that prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate any pests [ 1], such as unwanted insects (insecticides, insect repellents), weeds (herbicides), microbes (fungicides, disinfectants), and mice and rats (rodenticides) [ 2].
Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA 2002), active ingredients those which "prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate any pest"—are subject to greater scrutiny than inert (or sometimes other) ingredients (U.S. EPA 1997).
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The use of pesticides in fruits and vegetable production is beneficial for preventing, destroying or repelling pests that may damage these crops.
Pesticides are defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPAas any"any substance or mixtures of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest" [ 5].
An active ingredient is defined as a chemical that prevents, destroys, repels, or mitigates a pest while "inert" or "other" ingredients are all other substances intentionally included in a pesticide product [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) 2011].
That elections do not automatically foster democracy, but may instead prevent or destroy it, is conveniently forgotten.
On the other hand, Congress may find that the general principle of first sale has ongoing merit in the digital age and can be adequately policed through technology – for example, measures that would prevent or destroy duplicative copies.
The mechanism of the high resistance to vancomycin is the replacement of the terminal D-Ala of peptidoglycan precursors with D-lactate, which can prevent or destroy the combination between vancomycin and peptidoglycan precursors [ 34].
It was not destroyed by either mutation or lateral gene transfer as strong purifying selection can prevent either destroying well-adapted phenotypes; extreme organismal stasis over billenia is a fundamental aspect of life [ 129].
For every product, there have to be rules to prevent them destroying themselves".
The aim of the £33m project is to prevent infections destroying patients' lungs.
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