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The key is this: The “inert” label is a colloquial misnomer, though. As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notes, inerts aren’t necessarily in
by kurthr 3y ago
The key is this:
The “inert” label is a colloquial misnomer, though. As the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notes, inerts aren’t
necessarily inactive or even nontoxic. In fact, pesticide
users sometimes know very little about how inerts function
in a pesticide formula. That’s partly because they are
regulated very differently than active ingredients.
- constantly 3y agoSomewhat worse, depending on your perspective, is that inert ingredients are confidential business information so while EPA has a list of what inerts are in what pesticides, that list is not publicly shareable. So, you as a consumer or citizen don’t even know what inerts are in the pesticides being used. Unless the manufacturer shares them, but they don’t typically, because they’re the proprietary information that separates Company A’s generic pesticide using active ingredient X (plus confidential inerts) and Company B’s generic pesticide using active ingredient X (plus their I’m sure very different inerts).
- mock-possum 3y agoThat’s a good (if frustrating) clarification - I was immediately thinking, well they can’t be all that inert if they’re having an effect!