(505 ILCS 120/10) (from Ch. 5, par. 2801-10)
    Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
    "Brand" means a term, design, trademark, product name, or other specific designation under which individual soil amendments are distributed.
    "Bulk" means in a nonpackaged form.
    "Department" means the Department of Agriculture.
    "Director" means the Director of the Department of Agriculture.
    "Distribute" means offer or hold for sale, sell, barter, give away, ship, deliver for shipment, receive and then deliver, or offer to deliver a soil amendment in this State.
    "Distributor" means any person who distributes a soil amendment in this State.
    "FIFRA" means the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.
    "Investigational allowance" means an allowance for variations in analytical determination inherent in the taking, preparation, and analysis of an official sample of a soil amendment.
    "Label" means all written, printed, or graphic material on or attached to the immediate container or wrapping or the statement accompanying a soil amendment.
    "Labeling" means the label and all other written, printed, or graphic material accompanying a soil amendment or referring to it in any other media used to disseminate information to the public in promoting the sale of a soil amendment.
    "Minimum percentage" means the percent of the soil amending ingredient that must be present in a product before the product will be accepted for registration or offered for sale.
    "Official sample" means any sample of a soil amendment taken by the Director or his or her agent or designee and designated as "official" by the Director.
    "Other ingredient" means the non-soil amending substance present in soil amendment products.
    "Percent" or "percentage" means a part of the whole by weight.
    "Person" means an individual, partnership, association, fiduciary, corporation, or other organized group of persons whether incorporated or not.
    "Registrant" means the person who registers soil amendments under the provisions of this Act.
    "Soil amendment" means any substance or material about which it is claimed that it will and is intended to improve the characteristics of the soil or otherwise affect soil and therefore is claimed to enhance crop production capacity or increase crop yield. The term does not include fertilizer material, agricultural limestone, marl, burnt or hydrated lime, sewage sludge produced by a sanitary district, or animal or vegetable manure that has not been processed or manipulated to chemically alter it. The term includes several soil and plant additive materials defined and referred to as soil conditioners; or wetting agents and surfactants; or biological inoculants and activators; or plant growth regulators and stimulants. Any chemical registered as a pesticide under FIFRA is not a soil amendment for purposes of this Act.
    "Soil amending ingredient" means the substance in a soil amendment product, whether a bacterial agent, mineral element, or chemical compound, that acts to improve soil or enhance crop production but is not a fertilizing material.
(Source: P.A. 87-394.)