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EPA announces chlorpyrifos spray drift measures
Story Date: 7/25/2012
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Source: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DEPTS. OF AGRICULTURE, 7/24/12
EPA announced last week new mitigation measures for spray applications of chlorpyrifos. In 2007, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Pesticide Action Network North America submitted a petition to revoke all tolerances and cancel all registrations for chlorpyrifos. Though EPA did not address the other claims in the petition, EPA did say that this action was intended to partly address claims in that petition relating to inhalation exposure.
Buffer zones are now necessary when applying the product in areas frequented by non-occupational bystanders. Companies manufacturing pesticides that use chlorpyrifos have voluntarily agreed to adhere to new labeling and a reduction in the rates of pesticide applied. Chlorpyrifos is used to control pests on food crops and non-food sites such as golf courses and wood products. They have also been effective as a fogger treatment to abate adult mosquitoes. In the petition, the environmental organizations alleged that chlorpyrifos impacts the neurological development of children.
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