Which terms on a pesticide label indicate toxicity levels?

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Which terms on a pesticide label indicate toxicity levels?

Pesticide labels use signal words to show how toxic a product is and how careful you need to be when using it. The standard terms indicate different levels of acute hazard: Danger means the highest toxicity and immediate hazard, Warning indicates moderate toxicity, and Caution signals lower toxicity. These words cue you to apply the appropriate PPE, follow specific handling instructions, and heed any restricted-entry intervals. Other wording like HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW isn’t used on labels to describe toxicity, and terms like TOXIC, NON-TOXIC, SAFE aren’t the label’s standard hazard signals. “WARNING ONLY” would miss the other levels and isn’t how risk is communicated on pesticide labels. So, the terms you’ll typically see that indicate toxicity levels are Danger, Warning, and Caution.

Pesticide labels use signal words to show how toxic a product is and how careful you need to be when using it. The standard terms indicate different levels of acute hazard: Danger means the highest toxicity and immediate hazard, Warning indicates moderate toxicity, and Caution signals lower toxicity. These words cue you to apply the appropriate PPE, follow specific handling instructions, and heed any restricted-entry intervals.

Other wording like HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW isn’t used on labels to describe toxicity, and terms like TOXIC, NON-TOXIC, SAFE aren’t the label’s standard hazard signals. “WARNING ONLY” would miss the other levels and isn’t how risk is communicated on pesticide labels.

So, the terms you’ll typically see that indicate toxicity levels are Danger, Warning, and Caution.

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