ISO 257:1976

Pest control chemicals and plant growth regulators -- Principles for the selection of common names

Pesticides et produits phytopharmaceutiques -- Principes pour le choix des noms communs

General Information

• Status: Replaced
• Publication Date: 31-Oct-1976
• Withdrawal Date: 31-Oct-1976
• ICS: 65.100.01 - Pesticides and other agrochemicals in general
• Technical Committee: ISO/TC 81 - Common names for pesticides and other agrochemicals
• Drafting Committee: ISO/TC 81 - Common names for pesticides and other agrochemicals
• Current Stage: 6060 - International Standard published
• Completion Date: 01-Nov-1976

RELATIONS

• Revised: ISO 257:1988 - Pesticides and other agrochemicals -- Principles for the selection of common names
• Effective Date: 15-Apr-2008

Standards Content (sample)

INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 257

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION *ML A.1) H4PO;IHAR (>Pi 4H1134UMR no Pest control chemicals and plant growth regulators -
Principles for the selection of common names

Pesticides et produits ph ytopharrnaceutiques - Principes pour le choix des tiorns communs

First edition - 1976-11-15
Ref. No. IS0 257-1976 (E)
UDC 632.95 : 001.4
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c Descriptors : phytopharmaceutical products, pesticides, nomenclature. writing, designation.

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FOREWORD

IS0 (the International Organization for standardization) is a worldwide federation

of national standards institutes (IS0 member bodies). The work of developing
International Standards is carried out through IS0 technical committees. Every
member body interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been set

up has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations,

governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with ISO, also take part in the work.

Draft International Standards adopted by the technical committees are circulated
to the member bodies for approval before their acceptance as International
Standards by the IS0 Council.

Prior to 1972, the results of the work of the technical committees were published

as IS0 Recommendations; these documents are in the process of being transformed
into International Standards. As part of this process, Technical Commitee
ISO/TC 81, Common names for pesticides, has reviewed IS0 Recommen-
dation R 257-1971 and found it technically suitable for transformation.
International Standard IS0 257 therefore replaces IS0 Recommen-
dation R 257-1971, to which it is technically identical.
IS0 Recommendation R 257 had been approved by the member bodies of the
following countries
Australia Germany Sw i tzerl and
Be I g i u m India Thailand
Canada I srael Turkey
Colombia Netherlands United Kingdom
Czechoslovakia Peru U.S.A.
Denmark Portugal U S.S. R .
South Africa, Rep. of Yugoslavia
Egypt, Arab Rep. of
Finland Spain
France Sweden
No member body had expressed disapproval of the Recommendation.
The member body of the following country disapproved the transformation of the
Recommendation into an International Standard :
France
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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD IS0 257-1976 (E)
Pest control chemicals and plant growth regulators -
Principles for the selection of common names
1 5 PRINCIPLES
SCOPE AND FIELD OF APPLICATION
5.1 No compound shall be given a common name if its
This International Standard sets out a number of principles
chemical name is reasonably short and distinctive (for
for the selection of common names for pest control
example, metaldehyde, c2rbon tetrachloride, ethylene
chemicals and plant growth regulators, together with expla-
oxide).
natory nGtes and examples of the application of certain of
the principles.
5.2 The country of origin shall be given the first oppor-
tunity to suggest a name.
2 OBJECT OF COMMON NAMES

The object of a common name is to provide a short, easily 5.3 Common names shall be identical in all languages,

pronounced name for a compound whose full chemical etc.
subject to necessary variation in spelling, inflection,
name is too long and complicated, for use in commerce and
in official regulations.
5.4 Common names shall be as short as is practicable.
5.5 Common names shall be distinctive in sound and
3 STYLE OF WRITING OR PRINTING COMMON
spelling.
NAMES
The recommended common name shall be written or
5.6 a) Common names shall, if practicable, include one
printed in lower case letters (for example, heptachlor, para-
or more syllables that serve as reminders of the scientific
thion) except where national usage requires capital initial
chemical name.
L, letters for nouns.
Examples of suitable names are :
In the exceptional cases where the names are formed from
atrazine 2-chloro-4-ethylamino-6-isopropylamino-
initials, they shall be written in capitals without intervening
1,3,5-triazine
full stops (for example, MCPA). If numerals and letters
both occur in a common name, the numerals shall be
chloropon 2.2.3-trichloropropionic acid
separated from one another by commas and from letters
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