pesticide hazard News
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EPA Ensures Company Discloses Pesticide Hazards
Today, a Milwaukee pesticide manufacturer paid a $738,000 civil penalty to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for advertising “Rozol Prairie Dog Bait” (Rozol PD) without identifying it as a “restricted use” pesticide, and for making unapproved claims about the pesticide, in violation of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). This is ...
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Highly hazardous pesticides should be phased out in developing countries
The tragic incident in Bihar, India, where 23 school children died after eating a school meal contaminated with monocrotophos, is an important reminder to speed up the withdrawal of highly hazardous pesticides from markets in developing countries, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today. Monocrotophos is an organophosphorus pesticide that is considered highly hazardous by FAO ...
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A Global Survey on GHS Labels for Pesticides 2015
It is generally expected that the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) will be adopted for pesticides. The biggest impact of GHS on pesticides will be pesticide classification and product labels due to the introduction of chemical classification criteria and GHS labelling elements. While GHS has been adopted for hazardous chemicals in workplace by a ...
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Epa proposes pesticide applicator certification plan for indian country in region 8
EPA has proposed a program to certify applicators of restricted use pesticides (RUPs) in Indian Country located within EPA Region 8. RUPs are potentially hazardous chemicals that require special training and techniques to be used safely. To ensure the safe handling of hazardous pesticides, federal law requires that EPA approve the certification of all RUP applicators, including those who work in ...
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FAO and WHO Publish Guidelines on Highly Hazardous Pesticides
On May 10, 2016, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) issued guidelines on highly hazardous pesticides (HHP) (Guidelines) as part of the International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management (Code of Conduct). HHPs are defined in the Guidelines as “pesticides that are acknowledged to present particularly high levels of ...
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Protecting Building Occupants from Pesticide Exposure Hazards
Pesticides are inherently toxic and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) describes them as chemicals that are used to kill or control pests. These pests include bacteria, fungi, and other organisms, in addition to insects and rodents. With regards to pesticide use and indoor air quality, EPA shares information from a study that found 75% of U.S. households used at least one pesticide ...
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Cancellation Order Establishes Existing Stocks Requirements for Sulfoxaflor
On November 12, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final cancellation order for all previously registered pesticide products containing the active ingredient sulfoxaflor, pursuant to Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Section 6(a)(1). The registrations for the sulfoxaflor products in question were cancelled effective on November 12, 2015, by an ...
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Growing need to revamp national laws governing pesticides
Some thirty years to the day after FAO first launched its International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides, the UN food agency is calling on countries to make sure that national regulatory frameworks governing the management of pesticides are kept up to date. "Despite the very significant progress achieved since the original promulgation of the Code, many national ...
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Soy industry adopts environmental safeguards
Elements of the soy industry have agreed to take a milestone step toward improving their production practices, which have led to widespread deforestation, displacement of small-farmers and indigenous peoples, and loss of natural habitats. On Thursday, participants in the Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) unanimously agreed to implement a pilot program of voluntary production standards aimed ...
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Douglas products and packaging of Liberty, Mo., to Pay $6,237 civil penalty for failure to file notice of imported pesticide
Douglas Products and Packaging LLC, an agrichemical company in Liberty, Mo., has agreed to pay a $6,237 civil penalty to the United States for failing to provide EPA with a required notice that it had imported a nearly 25-ton shipment of pesticide from China. According to an administrative consent agreement filed by EPA Region 7 in Kansas City, Kan., the Agency was notified on May 19, 2011, that ...
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Secure Pesticides and Chemicals during Poison Prevention Week
During National Poison Prevention Week, March 17-23, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urges parents and caregivers to secure pesticides and other household chemicals in locked cabinets out of children's reach. “Poison Prevention Week is a time to raise awareness and strengthen prevention efforts to empower parents and caregivers with information about simple steps that can be ...
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EPA authorizes companies to make pesticide labels available on internet
The Environmental Protection Agency will now allow pesticide registrants to make legally valid product labels accessible on the Internet. The EPA released a pesticide registration notice, posted on the agency's website April 4, outlining a voluntary process for posting legally valid, enforceable pesticide labeling material on the Internet. Prior to issuance of the notice, which is effective ...
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The Netherlands doesn’t succeed in reaching target for responsable soy
The Dutch Soy Coalition (formed by eight development and environmental organisations*) finds that in 2013, only a quarter of the 2.4 metric tons of soy used in the Netherlands is responsibly produced. The social or environmental consequences of the production of the other three quarters of the imported soy, are not at all clear or accounted for. The target of the Netherlands is to purchase 100 ...
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