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The threshold question is not a packaging question A flea or tick claim is the usual route And an ordinary shampoo is not a pesticide Nothing here rules on any product Nor on registration Nor on the rest of the label Nor on use directions or worker protection Nor on whether a grooming product is a drug What is here is the container consequence Nor on how a claim is read Plus an honest account of the shelf References

Part 156 reaches pesticides. Whether a product is one turns on its claims.

The threshold question is not a packaging question

A pet grooming product is reached by pesticide labeling only if it is a pesticide, and that turns on the claims made for it rather than on the shelf it sits on.

A flea or tick claim is the usual route

Which is a marketing copy decision with a regulatory consequence, the same shape as the cosmetic-or-drug question in the cannabis topicals property.

And an ordinary shampoo is not a pesticide

A cleaning product with no pesticidal claim is not reached by part 156 at all, and nothing in this property suggests otherwise.

Nothing here rules on any product

Not on any of the six leaves and not on any formulation. The determination belongs with someone qualified.

Nor on registration

Whether a product requires registration, and the establishment and registration numbers a registered product carries, are outside these pages.

Nor on the rest of the label

A pesticide label carries a great deal besides the container type statements, and none of it is described here.

Nor on use directions or worker protection

Which are substantial parts of pesticide labeling and have nothing to do with a container catalog.

Nor on whether a grooming product is a drug

A product making a therapeutic claim is assessed differently again, and the hair care property covers the monograph route for human products.

What is here is the container consequence

Two container types, two required statements, and the fact that our catalog does not record which type anything is.

Nor on how a claim is read

Whether a particular form of words amounts to a pesticidal claim is a judgment made elsewhere, and it is the judgment the whole scope question rests on. A container catalog has no standing in it.

Plus an honest account of the shelf

Which for four of the six leaves is the wrong shelf, and the right parts are in the catalog and not routed here.

References

40 CFR part 156 is pesticide labeling. A pet grooming product is reached by it only if the product is a pesticide, which turns on the claims made for it rather than on the category it is sold in. Nothing on these pages states whether any particular product is or is not a pesticide, and nothing addresses registration, establishment or registration numbers, the rest of the content a pesticide label must carry, use directions, worker protection, or state law.

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. This group's shelf is 80 containers, all of them glass, with a largest capacity of 120 mL and nothing above it; 63 of the 80 are glass boston rounds. Among the 198 closures indexed to the group there is no pump, sprayer, mist sprayer or foamer: 102 are continuous thread polypropylene lids and 43 are dropper assemblies. Catalog-wide on the same day there are 358 plastic containers between 200 and 600 mL and 121 pump, sprayer, mist or foamer closures, none of which is routed to this group. The cause is that this spoke resolves to the pc-essential-oil archetype, the same one the aromatherapy group uses.

Written from 40 CFR 156.140 and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. Part 156 is pesticide labeling and reaches a pet grooming product only if that product is a pesticide, which turns on the claims made for it; nothing here rules on any product. Our catalog publishes no field recording whether a container is refillable or nonrefillable, which is the attribute that section turns on. This group's shelf is 80 glass containers with nothing over 120 mL and no pump, sprayer or foamer, while the catalog holds 358 plastic containers between 200 and 600 mL and 121 pump, sprayer and foamer closures that are not routed here.