---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 180.905"
title: "40"
number: "180.905"
heading: "Pesticide chemicals; exemptions from the requirement of a tolerance."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/180.905"
---

# §180.905. Pesticide chemicals; exemptions from the requirement of a tolerance.

- (a) When applied to growing crops, in accordance with good agricultural practice, the following pesticide chemicals are exempt from the requirement of a tolerance:
  - (1) **Petroleum oils.**
  - (2) **Piperonyl butoxide.**
  - (3) **Pyrethrins.**
  - (4) **Sabadilla.**
- (b) When applied to growing crops, in accordance with good agricultural practice, the pesticides rotenone or derris or cube roots are exempt from the requirement of a tolerance. There are no U.S. registrations for use of rotenone, derris, or cube roots on food commodities as of March 23, 2011.
- (c) These pesticides are not exempted from the requirement of a tolerance when applied to a crop at the time of or after harvest.

## Notes

### Amendments

[77 FR 59128, Sept. 26, 2012]

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 321(q), 346a and 371.

### Source

Source: 36 FR 22540, Nov. 25, 1971, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[77 FR 59128, Sept. 26, 2012]