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December 2001

Issue # 188

  • Pesticide Illness Data 1995-1999, Part 2
  • AENews Goes 100% Electronic
  • Pesticide Safety and Beneficial Arthropods
  • Strobilurin Fungicides: Tools for Fruit Disease Management
  • Bug of the Month: Damsel Bug
  • Upcoming Conferences

November 2001

Issue # 187

SPECIAL EDITION: Focus on Agriculture/Food Terrorism

  • Terrorists at the Table:
    • FDA Looks at Food Bioterrorism
    • Developing an Anti-Terrorism Plan
  • Terrorism on the Hoof: Livestock as Bioterrorism Target
  • The "New" Bioterrorism: A Public Health Perspective
  • Pesticides as Weapons: Agrichemical Industry's Role in Anti-Terrorism
  • Crop Duster Concerns: NW Aerial Applicators Respond to FBI/FA

October 2001

Issue # 186

  • Admiring Risk Reduction: Does Imidacloprid Have What it Takes?
  • Imidacloprid: Insecticide on the Move
  • Homoptera and Neonicotinyls: Imidacloprid Aids Glassywinged Sharpshooter (GWSS) Battle in California
  • It's the Water: Legal Issues and Rural H20
  • Bug of the Month: Big-Eyed Bug

 

September 2001

Issue # 185

  • Acetic Acid: "Miracle" Herbicide?
  • Viability of Insect Pathogens as Biological Control Agents
  • WSCPR: Assisting Minor Crops in Washington State
  • WSDA Receives $178,000 to Support Exports
  • First Year Retrospective and a Look toward the Future at FEQL

August 2001

Issue # 184

  • Is "Good" Enough? Proper Time and Place for GLP
  • NRSP5's Role in Keeping Fruit Trees Virus-Free
  • IR-4 Projects 2001 & 2002, Part 2
  • Of Microbes and Men: Food Safety
  • More QBL "Garden Path" Awards
  • An Interesting Conundrum: 24C Protects WA Apples
  • Insect of the Month: Dragonfly

 

July 2001

Issue # 183

  • Pesticide Illness Data in Washington, 1995-1999
  • Bushwhacked by Arsenic? Part 2: Water, Water, Everywhere, and a Drop of Arsenic, Too
  • IR-4 Projects 2001 & 2002, Part 1
  • Foodborne Pathogens: Is No One Safe?
  • Pesticides as "Fertility Drugs" for Mites

 June 2001

Issue # 182

  • Pink Bollworm: Tale of a Transgenic Tool
  • Bushwhacked by Arsenic? Part 1: Toxic Terror & Treated Wood
  • QBL Cancels Registrants' Royal Reprieve
  • Thrips & Onions: Field Observations 2000
  • FEQL Advisors Meeting April 2001
  • Pest of the Month: Lygus Bug

 May 2001

Issue # 181

  • Pesticide/ESA Task Force Unveils Evaluation Process
  • Biocontrol of Insect Pests in Potato
  • Update on WSU's Center for Precision Agriculture
  • Repelled and Repulsed: Two-Spotted Spider Mites React to Agrichemicals
  • Making Monkeys Out of Environmentalists
  • Pest of the Month: Thrips

 April 2001

Issue # 180

  • Pesticides and Salmon, Part 2: Animals in Drag?
  • Ill Wind for Washington Grapes? Chlorophenoxy Issue Won't Drift Away
  • Using Beneficial Nematodes for Crop Insect Pest Control
  • Invertebrate Pathology Field Manual Available
  • Pest of the Month: Aphids

 March 2001

Issue # 179

  • Pesticides and Salmon, Part 1: Something Smells Fishy
  • $ection 18$: Valuable Any Way You Look at 'Em
  • WSDA Section 18 Compliance Project Update
  • Forest Vegetation Management: Public Perceptions of Risk, Trust, and Acceptablity
  • Pesticide and Container Disposal Schedules
  • Pest of the Month: Grape Mealybug

 February 2001

Issue # 178

  • Herbicide Tolerant Genes, Part 4: Withering Wildlife?
  • A Herbicide "Mode of Action" Primer
  • Which Pesticides Are Safe to Beneficial Insects and Mites?
  • IAREC: A Thumbnail Profile
  • Pest of the Month: Delusory Parasitosis
  • WSDA Pesticide Disposal

 January 2001

Issue # 177

  • The Birth of the 'News: AENews Looks Back on 30 Years
  • Analyzing Analysis: A 30-Year Retrospective
  • Thin Eggshells & Pregnant Chads: Toxicological Signposts on the Bridge to the 21st Century
  • Diazinon Hits EPA's Chopping Block
  • FEQL Board Looks Ahead to 2001
  • Pest of the Month: Cluster Fly

 December 2000

Issue # 176

  • Herbicide Tolerant Genes, Part 3: "Super Weed" Myths and Kryptonite Remedies
  • The QBL Gets Graphic
  • Home & Garden Pesticides Take Center Stage at Pesticide Issues Conference
  • Changes for Washington's Section 18 Process
  • Water Quality Conference Looks at Tough Pac NW Issues
  • Pesticide Applicator Training Courses for 2001
  • Pest of the Month: Carpet Beetles

 November 2000

Issue # 175

  • Riparian Buffer Zones: Summer 2000 Field Study
  • Herbicide Tolerant Genes, Part 2: Giddy 'bout Glyphosate
  • QBL: Call It Confusing..Call It a Non-Anom Nominee
  • Pushing the Envelope of Analytical Detection Levels
  • Guzman v. Amvac
  • IR-4 Priorities Set for 2001
  • Precision Forestry
  • Pest of the Month: Rodents

 October 2000

Issue # 174

 Urban Home & Garden Theme Issue

  • Hazards of Harriet the Homeowner
  • Pesticide AD-ucation: "Learning" from Madison Ave.
  • Turfgrass Clippings: A Bagful of Lawn & Turf Issues
  • Compost Quality: New Threats from Persistent Herbicides
  • Structural Pest Management: Out of the Shadows
  • Putting the Bite on Mosquitoes in Western Washington
  • Insect of the Month: Lady Beetle

 September 2000

Issue # 173

  • Pesticide Emergencies: Planning for the Unexpected
  • Input Needed Now for 2001 IR-4 Projects
  • HRH QBL Asks: Wherefore Art Thou, Revision Information?
  • Herbicide Tolerant Genes, Part 1: Squaring Up Roundup Ready Crops
  • Insect of the Month: Yellowjackets
  • Changes in WSCPR Funding
  • Pesticide Issues Conference Announced
  • PNW Ag/Water Quality Conference Announced

 August 2000

Issue # 172

  •  Input Needed Now for 2001 IR-4 Projects
  • "Show Us the Data!" New FEQL Analytical Chemist Looks Ahead
  • Precision Agriculture Center Introduced at WSU
  • Food Safety Conference Teems with Information, Part II
  • Regulating Herbicide Tolerant Plants
  • QBL Speaks Out: Non-Anom Nominees
  • Dear Aggie
  • Pesticide and Container Recycling Dates

July 2000

Issue # 171

  • Chlorpyrifos Redux: It Ain't Over 'til the EPA Sings)
  • QBL II (No, It's Not a Boat--"Queen Bee of Labels, Part II)
  • But, Seriously Folks...EPA Label Accountability Project
  • Food Safety Conference Teems with Information, Part I
  • A Further Note on Mites and Abamectin Resistance
  • Pheromones Researched for Red Currant Pest Control
  • Commercial Applications of Moth Pheromone

 June 2000

Issue # 170

  • Pesticide Exposure and Children, Part 3: Estimating Doses
  • Insecticidal Genes, Part 4: Resisting Resistance
  • Abamectin Resistance in Spider Mites on Hops
  • The Biology of Moth Pheromones
  • Sustainable Agriculture: A Lopez Island Case Study
  • FEQL Analytical Chemist on Board
  • Improvements in PICOL Database

 May 2000

Issue # 169

  • Defending Section 18s: WSDA's Pro-Active Compliance Project
  • If I Were the Queen of Labels
  • Insecticidal Genes, Part3: Long Live the Monarch
  • PIC Announces: Tolerance Database Up to Date

April 2000

Issue # 168

  • Insecticidal Genes, Part2: Human Health Hoopla
  • Protecting Our Insect and Mite Friends
  • The Chemistry of Moth Pheromones
  • The Value of Section 18s
  • Noteworthy New Products
  • Pesticide Container Recycling Schedule 2000

 March 2000

Issue # 167

  • Fearing for Phosmet: EPA Ready for Comments on Latest OP
  • Insecticidal Genes, Part 1: From Tight Fit to Uptight
  • Pest Management Strategic Plans: Transitioning from Transition Strategies
  • Pesticide Exposure and Children, Part 2: Children in Agricultural Communities
  • Conferences and Workshops: Foodsheds, Food Safety, Monitoring

 February 2000

Issue # 166

  • Chlorpyrifos Risk Assessment, Part 3: Ecorisk--Guilt by Omission?
  • Pesticides and Children, Part 1: Why Focus on Kids?
  • Ding, Dong--It's Not Avon®: "Pest Board Calling"
  • EPA's Response to "Requiem for Methyl Parathion"
  • Y2K: It's Not Bugging the Bugs
  • Felsot Receives North Star Award

January 2000

Issue # 165

  • Chlorpyrifos Risk Assessment, Part 2: The Rugrat Rant
  • NCI's 2,4-D Study: Are Your Tax Dollars Funding Biased Advocacy?
  • Horticultural Spray Oils: Useful Year-Round IPM Strategy
  • Are Plants What They Eat? Organic vs. Synthetic Nitrogen
  • FEQL Advisory Board Prepares for 2000
  • Growing an Alternative Crop Industry
  • Stalking the Wild (and Not-So-Wild) Lingonberry

 December 1999

Issue # 164

 

  • Chlorpyrifos Risk Assessment, Part 1: A Tale of Two Sciences
  • Making the Connection: Farmers & The General Public
  • Know Your Enemy: Proper Pest ID Good for Environment & Bottom Line
  • UW Hosting Course on Pesticide Effects
  • Biological Control of Yellow Starthistle
  • 4th Annual Pesticide Issues Conference

 November 1999

Issue # 163

  • Is It Snake Oil? The Dangers of Cavalier Pest Control
  • Anatomy of a Recommendation
  • Organophosphates and the Risk Cup
  • Implications of Buffer Zones: Impacts on Arthropods
  • Boffo Buffer Zones: How Big Is Big Enough?
  • Future of SLN Registrations
  • PICOL: Dilly of a Database

 October 1999

Issue # 162

  •  IR-4: Developing and Delivering Pest Management Solutions for Minor Crop Producers
  • Using GPS to Study Exposures to Pesticides and Nitrates
  • Attack on the Male, Part III: Bad Brains & Bad Kids
  • Helpful URLs: EPA & WSDA
  • Employment Opportunity: Analytical Chemist

 September 1999

Issue # 161

  • Response to EPA's Action on Methyl Parathion and Azinphos-Methyl
  • Requiem for Methyl Parathion
  • Good-bye to Dr. Carol Weisskopf
  • Attack on the Male, Part II: Synthetic Chemicals: Emancipators or Emasculators?
  • Employment Opportunity: Analytical Chemist
  • Sprayer Tune-Ups Pay Off
  • WSU TC's 10th Anniversary

 August 1999

Issue # 160

  • Proposed Section 18 Changes: Timing is Everything
  • Transition Strategies in Washington State Cranberries
  • Attack on the Male, Part I: Are Synthetic Chemicals Guilty of Gender Bias?
  • PNASH Farm Summit
  • Food Safety Conference Focuses on Pathogens

 July 1999

Issue # 159

IPM (Integrated Pest Management) Feature Issue

  • IPM: An Overview
  • IPM Conference Tackles the Tough Issues
  • IPM in Schools
  • Codling Moth: An IPM Model
  • One Drip at a Time: Chemigation as IPM Strategy

 June 1999

Issue # 158

  • Is It Soup Yet? The Mysteries of Chemical Mixtures Revealed
  • Plant-Sucking Mites
  • Approaching FQPA: An EPA Perspective
  • Forest Industry Vibration/Noise Studies Underway
  • SFI a Boon for Washington State
  • Coming Soon to a Pesticide Label Near You (IR-4 results)
  • FQPA-Implementation Working Group Legislation Introduced

May 1999

Issue # 157

  • Water Quality: What Does It All Mean?
  • Riparian Buffers for Salmon Recovery
  • Pesticides & Salmon Decline: Missing Link or Red Herring?
  • WSDA's Farmworker Education Training
  • Pilot Program Using Plays to Educate
  • 1999 Pesticide Container Recycling Schedule
  • When It's Listed, Listed, Listed on the Label, Label, Label...

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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