Vermont § 911 - Definitions As used in this chapter:

§ 911. Definitions As used in this chapter:

• (1) “Active ingredient” means: (A) in the case of an economic poison other than a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant,
  any ingredient that will prevent, destroy, or repel insects, nematodes, fungi, rodents,
  weeds, or other pests; (B) in the case of plant regulators, any ingredient that will accelerate or retard the
  rate of growth or rate of maturation or otherwise alter the behavior of plants or
  the produce thereof; (C) in the case of a defoliant, any ingredient that will cause the foliage to drop from
  a plant; or (D) in the case of a desiccant, any ingredient that will artificially accelerate the drying
  of plant tissue. (2) “Adulterated” shall apply to any economic poison if its strength or purity falls below
  the professed standard or quality as expressed on labeling or under which it is sold,
  or if any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the article, or if
  any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted. (3) “Antidote” means the most practical immediate treatment in case of poisoning and includes
  first aid treatment. (4) “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture, Food and Markets. (5) “Economic poison” means: (A) any substance produced, distributed, or used for preventing, destroying, or repelling
  any insects, rodents, nematodes, fungi, weeds, or other forms of plant or animal life
  or viruses, except viruses on or in living humans or other animals, that the Secretary
  shall declare to be a pest; or (B) any substance produced, distributed, or used as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant. (6) “Fungi” means all nonchlorophyll-bearing thallophytes (that is, all nonchlorophyll-bearing
  plants of a lower order than mosses and liverworts) as, for example, rusts, smuts,
  mildews, molds, yeast, and bacteria, except those on or in living humans or other
  animals. (7) “Fungicide” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing,
  destroying, repelling, or mitigating any fungi. (8) “Herbicide” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing,
  destroying, repelling, or mitigating any weed. (9) “Inert ingredient” means an ingredient that is not an active ingredient. (10) “Ingredient statement” means: (A) A statement of the name and percentage of each active ingredient, together with the
  total percentage of the inert ingredients, in the economic poison. (B) A statement of the name of each active ingredient, together with the name of each
  and total percentage of the inert ingredients, if any there be, in the economic poison.
  However, if the preparation is highly toxic to humans (determined as provided in section 913 of this title), subdivision (A) of this subdivision (10) shall apply. (C) A statement of the percentages of total and water soluble arsenic, each calculated
  as elemental arsenic, to be made in addition to the statement required by subdivision
  (A) or (B) of this subdivision (10), in case the economic poison contains arsenic. (11) “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, as, for example, beetles, bugs, bees,
  flies, and to other allied classes of arthropods whose members are wingless and usually
  have more than six legs, as, for example, spiders, mites, ticks, centipedes, and wood
  lice. (12) “Insecticide” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing,
  destroying, repelling, or mitigating any insects that may be present in any environment
  whatsoever. (13) “Label” means the written, printed, or graphic matter on, or attached to, the economic
  poison, or the immediate container thereof, and the outside container or wrapper of
  the retail package, if any there be, of the economic poison. (14) “Labeling” means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter: (A) upon the economic poison or any of its containers or wrappers; (B) accompanying the economic poison at any time; or (C) to which reference is made on the label or in literature accompanying the economic
  poison, except when accurate, nonmisleading reference is made to current official
  publications of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or of the Interior, the U.S. Public
  Health Service, state experiment stations, state agricultural colleges, or other similar
  federal institutions or official agencies of this State or other states authorized
  by law to conduct research in the field of economic poisons. (15) “Misbranded” shall apply: (A) To any economic poison if its labeling bears any statement, design, or graphic representation
  relative thereto or to its ingredients that is false or misleading in any particular. (B) To any economic poison: