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April 1999

Issue # 156

  • How Much Punch Does a Peach Pack? (How EWG & CU Have Confused Risk Management with Hazard)
  • SOT Letter to EPA
  • WSDA Pesticide Waste Disposal
  • Pesticide Container Recycling Schedule
  • Insecticide Resistance and an Ecological Phenomenon
  • Western Corn Rootworms Adapt to Crop Rotation
  • Food Safety Farm to Table Conference
  • Study Evaluating Mortality Patterns in Orchardists

 March 1999

Issue # 155

  • Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
  • Pesticide Sensitive Registry
  • Chemical-Induced Illness Bill in Senate
  • Worker Exposure & FQPA: It's in the RED!
  • Single-Season OP Study: No Nerve Damage
  • Spinosad: Lethal Brew
  • Lasting Legacy of Lead Arsenate
  • EPA Brochure Released

 February 1999

Issue # 154

  • EPA Brochure: The Right to Leak?
  • Changes to C&T Programs
  • "No Detected Pesticide Residues"
  • Crop Profiles
  • Icons & Worker History
  • FEQL December Advisory Board Meeting
  • Section 18's: Are They Worth It?
  • Dear Aggie

 January 1999

Issue # 153

  • What if OPs & Carbamates Were Banned? (PART 2)
  • 1999 Washington State IR-4 Residue Trials
  • Pesticides, Children, & FQPA
  • Third PNW Pesticide Issues Conference: "Explaining the Science Behind FQPA"
  • 1999 Pesticide Training Courses Scheduled
  • Dear Aggie
  • Section 18 & 24(c) Info & Assistance

 December 1998

Issue # 152

  • What if OPs & Carbamates Were Banned? (PART 1)
  • FQPA: A USDA Perspective
  • 1999 Subscription--Act Now!
  • Free? Unlikely.
  • WSDA Harmoniously Saves Tolerances
  • Cholinesterase Field-Test Kit Shows Potential
  • 1999 Pesticide Training Courses Scheduled
  • Digging for Dioxins: Does Agriculture Have Buried Secrets?

 November 1998

Issue # 151

  • Anatomy of a Risk Assessment (Guthion)
  • Pesticide Training Courses
  • First FEQL Advisory Board Meeting
  • Risks Low for Careful Organophosphate Use
  • Minor Crop Registration Workshop
  • Metabolism of Pesticides in Plants & Livestock
  • Aggregate Risk Assessment of Chlorpyrifos
  • Dear Aggie

October 1998

Issue # 150

  • IPM Certification & Labeling
  • Pesticide Training Courses
  • Third Pac NW Pesticide Issues Conference
  • Pleased to Meet You (Dr. Doug Walsh)
  • Minor Crop Registration Workshop
  • Detection Limits & FQPA: How Low Can You Go?
  • Nitrites & Blue-Baby Syndrome Re-examined
  • EPA Organophosphate Hazard Assessments Released

September 1998

Issue # 149

  • PIRT Annual Review
  • Research in Aquatic Pest Control
  • Getting Started on the Web
  • WPCA Container Collection Program
  • Agriculture & Water Quality in Pac NW (Conference)
  • Dear Aggie

August 1998

Issue # 148

  • Now You See It, Now You Don't (Detection Limit)
  • PNASH: The Pac NW Ag Safety & Health Center
  • BT Gets Help from a New Biopesticide
  • Singing the Same Old Song...(Critique of EWG Report)
  • WPCA Container Collection Program
  • Dear Aggie

 July 1998

Issue # 147

  • EPA Hears Concerns About FQPA
  • Dr. Felsot Testimony to Dr. Lynn Goldman
  • Erika Schreder Testimony to Dr. Lynn Goldman
  • Poison Center Director Weighs in on FQPA
  • Farm to Table Conference
  • 'The time has come,' the Walrus said,
  • PNN Update
  • Respirator Compliance
  • Empty Plastic Containers to be Collected by D & M Chem Inc.
  • Container Collection Program
  • Chlorpyrifos--Tolerance
  • Dear Aggie

 June 1998

Issue # 146

  • Another Fine Mess
  • Dinoseb
  • Biopesticides
  • Tolerances and Diet
  • Pesticide Dialogue
  • Container Collection
  • IPM Publications
  • Tolerance Information
  • PNN Update
  • Respirator Compliance
  • Dear Aggie

 May 1998

Issue #145

  • Precision Agriculture
  • Environmental Issues With Department of Health
  • Here's Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Us Into
  • Container Collection
  • PNN Users Give Network High Marks
  • On the Road With FQPA
  • Gore Addresses FQPA
  • Dear Aggie
  • WSU Sponsors Food Safety Conference

April 1998

Issue #144

  •  Pesticide Management lists top issues
  • Washington's water quality rises in priority
  • Compliance deadlines approaching
  • FQPA workshop
  • EPA funds initiative
  • Pro-Agri-Food Initiative
  • Lawsuit demands cholinesterase testing
  • Food irradiation
  • FQPA fallout

 March 1998

Issue #143

  • Pesticide registration & Section 18 Emergency Exemptions
  • Ecology to focus this year on agriculture and environment
  • Position announcement
  • Responses back from newsletter survey
  • Use recommendations and supplemental labels
  • Gambling, semantics, and risk assessment

February 1998

Issue #142

  • Reorganization planned for EPA
  • Update on metals in fertilizer
  • Recertification, prelicensing classes
  • You can't tell the players without a scorecard
  • National Organic Program
  • Pesticide Management revisits pesticide recertification
  • Position announcement
November/December 1997
Issue #141
  • Pollinating Insects, Labeling Issues in 1997
  • Panel Finds No Link Between Pesticide Exposure, Cancer

October 1997

Issue #140

  • No Apologies Needed For Washington Agriculture
  • Court Finds For Manufacturer in Phosdrin Exposure Suit
  • Spray Adjuvants -- Book Review
  • Ten Most Influential People On Washington Agchem Issues
  • The Coming Storm -- FQPA
  • Allan Felsot -- The Use and Misuse of Material Safety Data Sheets
  • Pesticide Container Collection

September 1997

Issue #139

  • Profile of Washington Agriculture
  • EPA Creates Minor Use Team, USDA Establishes New Office
  • WSU Sponsoring Conference on FQPA, Other Pesticide Issues
  • Allan Felsot - Endocrine Disruptor Worries Here to Stay
  • Pesticide Training Courses Scheduled
  • Pesticide Container Collection
August 1997 Issue #138
  • Dual Conferences Planned for October
  • WSDA Now on the Web
  • Conference to Offer Information
    on FQPA, Other Pesticide Issues
  • WSU, WSCPR Plan Exposition on State Pest Management
  • Technical Assistance Inspections Available
  • Pesticide Container Collection
  • The Significance of 47
  • EPA Activities to Manage Pesticide Resistance
  • Pesticide-estrogen Link in Doubt After Report Retracted
  • Pesticide Disposal Events

July 1997

Issue #137

  • Pesticide Container Collection
  • FQPA Threatens Minor Use Crops
  • Information Provided on Antimicrobial Products
  • Commentary on WSDA -- editorial by Alan Schreiber
  • New Directions -- by Heather Hansen, executive director of Washington Friends of Farms and Forests
  • Ambassador Training for Crop Protection Professionals
  • Department of Health Releases Pesticide Incident Report
  • Pesticide Data Program Releases 1995 Data
  • Office of Pesticide Programs Prioritizes Registration Actions
June 1997 Issue #136
  • Pesticide Container Collection
  • Pesticide Notification Network: Update from the Coordinator
  • BASF, North Dakota Farmers Agree to Settle for $1.5 Million
  • WSDA Names Assistant Director for Pesticide Management
  • Indemnification and its Effect on SLN Registrations
  • EPA Announces Details of FQPA Implementation
  • The 1997 IR-4 Projects
  • Allan Felsot -- Sulfonylurea Herbicides: Ecological Menace or Herald of Environmental Stewardship
May 1997 Issue #135
  • Pesticide Container Collection
  • Ag Groups Generous Supporters of Research
  • Man Convicted of 48 Counts of Illegal Pesticide Use
  • Pesticide Notification Network
  • Pesticide Incident Reporting and Tracking Annual Report
  • A New Insecticide in Orchard Pest Management
  • Organophosphate Exposure Does Not Impair Nerve Function
  • Allan Felsot -- Metals in Food: Natural Abundance, Soil Amendments as Contributors
April 1997 Issue #134
  • Gorton Supports Prosser
  • Pesticide Container Collection
  • Student Perception of Biotech
  • WSU Plant Diagnostic Labs Initiate Cost Recovery Program
  • WSCPR Nears End of Biennium
  • Minor Crops Book to be Revised
  • Washington State Ag Facts
  • State Pest Control Tour Scheduled for July
  • Restricted Use Pesticides
    -- includes tables listing Washington state and federal RUP's
March 1997 Issue #133
  • FQPA update
  • Greenpeace Calls for Halt of Genetically Altered Foods
  • Genetically Changed Foods Get Favorable U.S. Reception
  • Minor Crop Definition (FQPA)
  • WSCPR Project Status
  • Chlorpyrifos and Diazinon in Ornamentals and Sod Production
  • EPA Releases Interim Report About Endocrine Disrupters
  • The Making of a Pesticide
  • Hastings Testifies Regarding Prosser Agricultural Research
  • Alert, a New Insecticide, Soon to Have U.S. Registrations
  • 1997 Washington Requests for Sect. 18 Emergency Exemptions
  • Pesticide Notification Network to Track Pesticide Availability
  • Let the Buyer Beware Solicitation for Products
February 1997 Issue #132
  • CDC Suspects Pest Spray Water for Outbreak of Food Illness
  • WSU Pesticide Education
  • EPA Commitments Regarding FQPA
  • FQPA and Apples
    -- includes table listing agricultural chemical applications in major apple producing states in 1995
  • FQPA -- The Latest
  • Allan Felsot -- How Does EPA Decide Whether a Substance is a Carcinogen?
    -- includes tables listing Group B1, B2 and C Carcinogens
  • WSCPR Considers Research Proposals
  • WASS Summarizes 1996 Washington Crops
  • One Company's Approach to Developing a Pesticide
  • IR-4 Food-use Research -- 1997
January 1997 Issue #131
  • Washington Agriculture Sets Records in 1995
  • U.S. Greenhouse, Nursery Pest Management Analyzed
  • WSU Pesticide Education
  • FDA Reports Findings of Food Sample Screening
  • FQPA and Potatoes
  • EPA Acts Against Pesticide That Forced Relocations
  • Section 18s and 1997
    Facts About WSU Ag Funding
  • WSCPR Progress Report
    -- includes table listing food-use pesticides classified by EPA as potential carcinogens
  • CASE to Offer Hands-on Training, Solutions to Ag Challenges
  • On-line Database Offers Guide to Registered Products, labels

 

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