§ 108135 Hazardous Substance Definition

• •A product can be hazardous if it contains a poison, even if it isn’t officially a pesticide.
• •The law looks at whether the product bears or contains an economic poison.
• •This definition connects to other sections that also talk about hazardous substances.

A household cleaning spray that isn’t sold as a pesticide but contains a poison that can make people sick.

If someone gets hurt using the spray, the law treats the spray as a hazardous substance because it holds a poison even though it isn’t listed as a pesticide.