Pesticides in the Pacific Southwest

National Pesticide Topics

Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder

Illegal Pesticide Products

Pollinator Protection

Electronic Notice of Arrival
of Pesticides and Devices

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Pesticide Product Importers and Customs Brokers:
Filing Your Mandatory EPA Notice of Arrival (PDF)

EPA’s Pacific Southwest region places particular emphasis on the following issues:

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Schools (PDF) (213pp, 1.8M)
The agricultural Worker Protection Program
U.S.-Mexico Border projects
Participating in community-based projects to better assess environmental exposure to pesticides in California's Salinas and San Joaquin Valleys, and the state's Central Coast area.

Regional Information

Pesticides and Children's Health
Feature Story: Stone Fruit Pesticides Reduction Success in California
State Pesticides Resources

Protecting Farmworkers from Pesticides

EPA has proposed revisions to the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard (WPS) to increase protections from pesticide exposure for the nation’s two million agricultural workers and their families. The proposal includes improvements to the existing regulation, such as annual safety training, mandatory posting of no-entry signs for the most hazardous pesticides, a first-ever minimum age requirement for handling pesticides, and new no-entry buffer areas surrounding pesticide-treated fields. Public comments are due June 17, 2014.