§ 12758 Spray Adjuvant Definition

Food and Agricultural Code·California

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This law explains what a "spray adjuvant" is – a product sold on its own that helps a pesticide work better.

Key Takeaways

•A spray adjuvant is any wetting, spreading, adhesive, emulsifying, or similar agent.
•It can be toxic or not, but its job is to aid another pesticide.
•It must be sold in its own package, not together with the pesticide.

Example

A farmer buys a bottle of wetting agent at the store and mixes it with a pesticide before spraying the crops.

Because the wetting agent is sold in a separate package and is meant to help the pesticide spread and work, the law says it is a spray adjuvant.

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§ 12758 Spray Adjuvant Definition

“Spray adjuvant” means any wetting agent, spreading agent, deposit builder, adhesive, emulsifying agent, deflocculating agent, water modifier, or similar agent, with or without toxic properties of its own, which is intended to be used with another pesticide as an aid to the application or effect of the other pesticide, and sold in a package that is separate from that of the pesticide other than a spray adjuvant with which it is to be used. (Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 361, Sec. 30. Effective January 1, 1997.)

Last verified: January 10, 2026

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spray adjuvant wetting agent spreading agent pesticide

References

Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
California Legislature. Food and Agricultural Code. Section 12758.

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