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A01N

PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES OR AS HERBICIDES; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS

Introduced: September 1968

Classification Context

Section:
HUMAN NECESSITIES
Class:
AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
Subclass:
PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES OR AS HERBICIDES; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS

Description

A01N encompasses compositions and methods for preserving biological materials and controlling organisms through chemical means. It covers biocidal agents used as disinfectants, pesticides, and herbicides, as well as pest repellants, attractants, and plant growth regulators. This classification includes active ingredients, formulations, application techniques, and efficacy data for agricultural, veterinary, and sanitary uses. The scope spans synthetic and natural biocides, their chemical structures, and mechanisms of action across diverse pest and pathogen targets.

Scope Notes

Glossary: acaricide acaricides any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing or destroying mites and ticks or making them less harmful alkali metal alkali metals one of the following elements: Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Fr alkaline earth metal alkaline earth metals one of the following elements: Ca, Sr, Ba, Ra arthropodicide arthropodicides any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing or destroying arthropods, e.g. insects, arachnids or crustaceans, or making them less harmful biocide biocides any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying or mitigating any living organism (e.g. plant or animal). Examples of a biocide are: acaricide, arthropodicide, fungicide, insecticide, molluscicide, rodenticide (see Synonyms and Keywords). disinfectant disinfectants any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying or mitigating microorganisms fungicide fungicides any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing or destroying moulds and fungi or making them less harmful halogen one of the following elements: F, Cl, Br, I, At heavy metal Heavy metals metal other than light metal herbicide herbicides any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing or destroying plant life or making it less harmful insecticide insecticides any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing or destroying insects or making them less harmful light metal light metals one of the following elements: alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, Be, Al, Mg metal metals element other than non-metal molluscicide molluscicides any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing or destroying molluscs, e.g. snails or clams, or making them less harmful non-metal non-metals one of the following elements: H, B, C, Si, N, P, O, S, Se, Te, noble gas, halogen pesticide pesticides any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing or destroying any pest (e.g., insects or rodents) or making it less harmful plant plants young tree, shrub, vegetable or flower newly planted, or intended for planting plant growth regulator plant growth regulators materials which alter the plant or may affect plant growth through a chemical modification of the plant metabolism, such as auxins rodenticide rodenticides any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing or destroying rodents, e.g. rats or mice, or making them less harmful | Limiting references: Preservation of foods, foodstuffs or non-alcoholic beverages Preservation or chemical ripening of harvested fruits or vegetables Processes specially adapted for the preservation of materials in order to produce animal feeding-stuffs Compositions for medical, dental or toilet purposes which kill or prevent the growth or proliferation of unwanted organisms Sex sterilants for animals other than invertebrates | Application references: Fungicidal, bactericidal, insecticidal, disinfecting or antiseptic paper

Related Keywords

weed or pest control in AGRICULTUREBIOCIDESDESTROYING pests or vegetationin pests or vegetationcultivating GRASSHERBICIDESINSECTICIDESMOTHPROOFING COMPOSITIONSPARASITICIDESPEST(S) repellantsPESTICIDE(S)herbicides; defoliantsprotection of PLANT(S) by use of chemical materials, composition of protective materialsPOISONS for noxious animalsPROOFING fibres against mothsREPELLING pestsRODENTICIDESSHEEP dipsdestroying VERMIN

23 direct subcodes

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  • A01N 27/00 Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing hydrocarbons
  • A01N 49/00 Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing compounds containing the group wherein m+n≥1, both X together may also mean —Y— or a direct carbon-to-carbon bond, and the carbon atoms marked with an asterisk are not part of any ring system other than that which may be formed by the atoms X, the carbon atoms in square brackets being part of any acyclic or cyclic structure, or the group wherein A means a carbon atom or Y, n ≥ 0, and not more than one of these carbon atoms being a member of the same ring system, e.g. juvenile insect hormones or mimics thereof
  • A01N 51/00 Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing organic compounds having the sequences of atoms O—N—S, X—O—S, N—N—S, O—N—N or O-halogen, regardless of the number of bonds each atom has and with no atom of these sequences forming part of a heterocyclic ring