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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, November 28, 2024
A CalEPA office plans to adopt a higher Prop. 65 cancer risk warning on the fumigant after agreeing with a petition from Californians for Pesticide Reform.
Growers in California and several other states are fighting to retain use of chlorpyrifos, a broad-spectrum insecticide environmentalists and farmworker advocates have sought to ban for years.
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation should list chlorpyrifos as a toxic air contaminant, a state scientific panel has recommended following review of a comprehensive risk assessment of the widely used insecticide.