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What this covers The line is in the definition Which means it is not a choice And an approval covers the words too The observable test Two leaves need a caution rather than a container What we can honestly supply References

One product cannot be both, because the definition of pesticide excludes a new animal drug by its own terms.

What this covers

Flea and tick topicals, pet CBD, ear solutions, eye drops and wound sprays. Five leaves across two process signatures, and the regulation divides them quite differently from the way the filling line does.

The line is in the definition

FIFRA defines a pesticide as a substance intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest, and then says the term shall not include any article that is a new animal drug under the food and drug law. The exclusion is inside the definition.

Which means it is not a choice

You do not pick an agency. What the article is decides, and the two statutes do not overlap by design. A product that kills fleas on contact and one that works systemically are different regulatory objects.

And an approval covers the words too

A new animal drug is deemed unsafe unless an approval is in effect and the drug, its labeling and its use all conform to that approval. So the label is part of what was approved rather than something added afterwards.

The observable test

An EPA-registered pesticide carries "EPA Registration No." or "EPA Reg. No." and an establishment number. An approved animal drug is sold under its approval with conforming labeling. A product with a pest or disease claim and neither marking is not in a third category.

Two leaves need a caution rather than a container

Pet CBD marketed with a claim to treat or prevent a condition is an unapproved new animal drug. And pet eye drops are required to be sterile, which decanting into a clean bottle ends. Both have their own pages here.

What we can honestly supply

Containers for cleaners and groomers that make no pest, antimicrobial or therapeutic claim. That is a real category and the shelves here serve it well: 443 containers with pumps, and 60 glass droppers for anything dosed by drop.

References

7 U.S.C. 136(u), the FIFRA definition of pesticide, which covers substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest and then excludes any article that is a new animal drug within the meaning of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or that has been determined not to be one by regulation, or that is an animal feed bearing or containing a new animal drug. law.cornell.edu

21 U.S.C. 321(v), the definition of a new animal drug: any drug intended for use for animals other than man whose composition is not generally recognized among qualified experts as safe and effective for use under the conditions prescribed, recommended or suggested in its labeling, with a pre-1938 saving clause and provisions for minor species and minor uses. law.cornell.edu

21 U.S.C. 360b(a)(1), which deems a new animal drug unsafe with respect to any particular use unless there is in effect an approval, a conditional approval, an index listing for a minor species or an authorization, and "such drug, its labeling, and such use conform" to it. law.cornell.edu

Written from federal statute, not from a veterinary bench. Which regime a specific product falls under is a determination about that product, and state feed and drug programs run alongside the federal ones. Nothing here is a registration, an approval, or advice on a particular formulation.