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Urban and Community Integrated Pest Management
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Pesticide Horrors from the CA Deptartment of Pesticide Regulation
With Halloween again upon us, what better time to unearth a few true horror stories of reported pesticide accidents from DPR and county agricultural commissioners' records? These recent tales illustrate the perils of misusing or carelessly handling...
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National Poison Prevention Week - March 19-25, 2017
![A child reaching for a pesticide stored in a common drinking container. [M.L.Poe]](http://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests//blogfiles/42427small.jpg "A child reaching for a pesticide stored in a common drinking container. [M.L.Poe]")
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), poisoning is the number one cause of injury-related death in the United States, and 1073 people in California were poisoned by pesticides in 2014 alone. Each year since 1962, National...
