Welcome to the IPM Podcast for Field Crops. Subscribe to the podcast and never miss an episode on your favorite platforms, such as iTunes , Google Podcasts, and Spotify. This Podcast is sponsored by UMN Extension Integrated Pest Management (IPM). In this week’s podcast, we feature: Dr. Trisha Leaf , Research Scientist with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture Pesticide and Fertilizer Division. Click here to listen to the podcast Dr. Leaf discussed how pesticide regulation works at the federal and state level. The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) is federal law that governs how pesticides are registered, distributed, sold, and used in the U.S (i.e., "the label is the law"). Pesticide registration is also when tolerance levels are determined for food crops and what label requirements are needed for in-field use to prevent pesticide residues occurring above the maximum residue limit or other safety concerns. Recently, tolerances of a common