Stricter safety rules ordered for pesticides

Courtesy Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness  Thu, 07/10/2008 - 22:01

YAKIMA -- Federal regulators will require new measures to protect agricultural workers from five pesticides, including two widely used in the Northwest potato industry, but are allowing continued use of a third that is widely banned under international treaty.


 

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