2. Adulterated. "Adulterated," shall apply to any pesticide if its strength or purity falls below the professed standard of quality as expressed on its labeling under which it is sold, or if any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the pesticide, or if any valuable constituent of the pesticide has been wholly or in part abstracted. as applied to a pesticide, means that:

A.__The pesticide's strength or purity falls below the standard of quality as expressed on the labeling under which it is sold;

B.__A substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the pesticide; or

C.__A valuable constituent of the pesticide has been wholly or in part abstracted.

3. Animal. "Animal" means all vertebrate and invertebrate species, including but not limited to man humans and other mammals, birds, fish and shellfish.

4. Beneficial insects. "Beneficial insects" means those insects which that, during their life cycle, are effective pollinators of plants, are parasites or predators of pests or are otherwise beneficial.

5. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources or his authorized agents.

6. Defoliant. "Defoliant" means any substance or mixture of substances intended for causing the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant, with or without causing abscission.

7. Desiccant. "Desiccant" means any substance or mixture of substances intended for artificially accelerating the drying of plant tissue.

8. Device. "Device" means any instrument or contrivance, other than a firearm, which that is intended for trapping, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest or any other form of plant or animal life, other than man a human being and other bacteria than a bacterium, virus or other microorganism on or in a living man human being or other living animals, but not