Posts Tagged: Department Pesticide Regulation

Healthy Schools Act Report: Your Feedback is Needed!

Do you work at or service a school or multiple schools? If so, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) is seeking your input about the Healthy Schools Act. Feedback from stakeholders—school district staff, child care providers,...

Dress correctly for work: new online course on personal protective equipment

Spring is in full swing and summer is right around the corner. If you work in agricultural, turf, landscape, or structural settings, you are probably at your busiest. If you handle pesticides as part of your work, you most likely wear some sort of...

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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Experts Converge in March to Discuss Human-Wildlife Conflict Resolution

Wildlife and people have been in the news lately. Perhaps you've heard of coyotes wandering in your neighborhood. You might have also read about how you shouldn't feed wildlife. Did you know they are connected? It's a problem when people feed coyotes...

EPA Proposes New Rules for Pesticide Applicators

[From the December 2015 issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin] On August 5, 2015, EPA released a proposal to revise the standards for both commercial and private certified pesticide applicators. In California this rule would affect anyone with an...

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