Virginia Administrative Code
Title 2 - AGRICULTURE
Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES
Chapter 670 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING PESTICIDE PRODUCT REGISTRATION, HANDLING, STORAGE, AND DISPOSAL UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE VIRGINIA PESTICIDE CONTROL ACT
Section 2VAC5-670-60 - Warning or precautionary statements

A. Warning or precautionary statements that are necessary and adequate to prevent injury to humans, useful vertebrate and invertebrate animals, and useful vegetation, must appear on the label in a place sufficiently prominent to warn the user. They shall state clearly and in nontechnical language the particular hazard involved in the use of the pesticide (e.g., ingestion, skin absorption, inhalation, flammability, or explosion), and the precautions to be taken to avoid accident, injury, or damage.

B. The label of every pesticide shall bear warnings or precautionary statements that are necessary for the protection of the public, including the statement, "Keep out of reach of children," on the front panel or that part of the label displayed under customary conditions of purchase. However, the commissioner may permit reasonable variations in the placement of that part of the required warnings and precautionary statements other than the statement "Keep out of reach of children" if in his opinion such variations would not be injurious to the public. If a pesticide is marketed in channels of trade where the likelihood of contact with children is extremely remote, or if the nature of the product is such that it is likely to be used on infants or small children without causing injury under any reasonably foreseeable conditions, the commissioner may waive the requirements of the statement "Keep out of reach of children." The commissioner may permit a statement such as "Keep away from infants and small children" instead of the statement "Keep out of reach of children," if he determines that such a variation would not be injurious to the public.