Click here for notification of new AENews issues or to unsubscribe from mailing list A monthly report on environmental and pesticide related issues Information from this site may be used and distributed as you wish, but do not sell this information without written permission from Washington State University. Permission may be obtained by contacting Catherine Daniels, cdaniels@tricity.wsu.edu . EDITORIAL POLICY, GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION.   Search Agrichemical and Environmental News To WSPRS (Washington State Pest Management Resource Service) Page November 2003 Issue # 211 HIPPO Research at WSU: Identifying and Harnessing HIPPOs for Hop and Grape Pest Management Got Comments? Pacific Northwest States Consolidate Comments to USDA/EPA Using New Program Mini Watermelons: New Crop for New Markets AENews Goes on Hiatus ...and Announcements and Upcoming Conferences October 2003 Issue # 210 FEQL Reviews a Decade of Service Tiny Shrimp Present Jumbo Problem: Soft Market and Loss of Carbaryl Threaten to Swamp Oyster Growers Searching for Alternatives to Plastic Mulch Scout Now to Avoid Spruce Aphid Issues Next Summer ...and Upcoming Conferences September 2003 Issue # 209 Lygus Parasites Show Promise, but No Silver Bullet: Surveys for Peristenus Wasps 2002 & 2003 Disparaging Dimethoate: A QBL Dissertation Small Fruit with Big Potential: Pacific Northwest Leads the World in Commercial Lingonberry Production ...and other Announcements and Upcoming Conferences August 2003 Issue # 208 Growing the Dry Bean Market: WSU and Bean/Cowpea CRSP Work to Expand Viability of Beans in Africa and at Home Pesticide Use and IPM Practices in Washington's Pear and Cherry Orchards First Human Case of WNV in Washington Likely ...and other Announcements and Upcoming Conferences July 2003 Issue # 207 Do Buffers Make Good Neighbors? Minimizing Pesticide Exposure at the Ag-Urban Interface QBL Edict to Registrants: Mean What You Say and Say What You Mean Cutworms Can Climb No More! Barrier Technique Shows Promise, Conserves Beneficials in Vineyard WSDA's Endangered Species Program Workshop Pesticide Stewardship Conference Slated for October Mycotoxin Conference Call for Papers June 2003 Issue # 206 Green Manuring with Mustard: Improving an Old Technology Sprucing Up Your IPM Skills: Plan Now to Attack Spruce Aphids Next Year Lake-Friendly Gardening: A Whatcom County Success Story Food and Environmental Quality Laboratory Board Meets Employment Opportunity: IPM Associate Announcements and Upcoming Conferences May 2003 Issue # 205 A Decade of Pesticide Use and IPM Practices in Washington Apple Orchards How Low Can You Go? Assessing Reduced Application Rates for Codling Moth Control Evaluating Imazapyr in Aquatic Environments: Searching for Ways to Stem the Tide of Aquatic Weeds West Nile Virus News & Resources April 2003 Issue # 204 Making a Clean Sweep of Cone Gall Midge: Duff Removal Shows Promise as a Non-Chemical Approach to Douglas-fir Seed Orchard IPM Cultivating Biological Connections: Organic/BioAg Symposium Opens Doors Grape Response to Varable Rate Fertilizers Management March 2003 Issue # 203 SPECIAL EDITION: Focus on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) IPM: Big and Small, We Need It All (Welcome to the IPM Feature Issue) IPM in the Palm of Your Hand: Portable Database Makes Informaton Convenient Managing Carrot Rust Fly: In Search of Alternatives for a Tough Customer Can Cover Crops Control Weeds? Two-Year Study Tests Efficacy in Vegetable Production Systems IPM for Landscape and Turf Professionals: Developing and Implementing a Successful Certification Program February 2003 Issue # 202   Weed Control in Container Crops: Sanitation and Cultural Practices Are Key The PNN: A Gem of a Program Waste Pesticide Disposal: WSDA Offers Important Service Salmon-Stimulated Lawsuits: Swimming in Circles or Shouldered on Sound Science? "National Organic Agriculture Standards" Satellite Broadcast USDA to Hold Farm Bill Briefings...and more January 2003 Issue # 201 IPM in Public Schools: An Implementation Success Story Secret Life of the Currant Stem Girdler: Another Opportunity to Use Sex Pheromones in Red Currants Reacting to GM Foods: Consumer Responses Surveyed in Asia and Europe Living on the Land CD Teaches Stewardship for Small Acreage "Lifestylers" Pesticide Issues Conference Features Safety and Health Topics IPM Symposium ...and more December 2002 Issue # 200 Problematic Product Names: A QBL Mini-Rant Parasites, Pesticides, and Polliwogs: Hazards vs. Risks FEQL Advisory Board Meets Mosquito Control Workshops in Washington State Environmental, Fishing Groups File for Injunction to Protect Salmon from Pesticides Pesticide Issues Conference Features Safety and Health Topics Direct Seed Conference ...and more November 2002 Issue # 199 Introducing WSPRS: SH-HHHH! A Quiet Change in Pest Management Resources IR-4 Minor Crop Priorities Set for 2003: PMSPs are In, Efficacy Trials are Out Aromatherapy for Lacewings: Using Plant-Produced Odors to Attract Predators and Aid Biological Control Water Quality Conference in Yakima Nov. 19-20 Safety and Health to be Addressed at Pesticide Issues Conference Security Guidelines for Agribusiness Issued Mosquito Meeting to Address West Nile Virus ...and more October 2002 Issue # 198 What's Cooking with Vinegar Recommendations? Acetic Acid as Herbicide EPA and FQPA: National Progress and Region 10 Projects Acrylamide Angst: Another Annoying Distraction About Food Safety EPA Releases Methyl Bromide Brochure WSU's PIC Becomes WSPRS Pesticide Applicator Training 2002-2003 Schedule Announced...and more September 2002 Issue # 197 A New Standard in Organics: National Organic Program Launches in October Water Quality Improvements in the Lower Yakima River: The RSBOJC Demonstrates How Irrigated Agriculture and Water Quality Can Coexist Surviving Neglect: Bugs Inhabiting Abandoned Grapevines Announcements and Upcoming Conferences August 2002 Issue # 196 QBL Reveals the Terrible Truth about Typos Hopping on a Bad Weed: Insect Biocontrol of Dalmatian Toadflax in Washington Nothin' Could Be Fina' than the Killin' o' Spartina: Learning Ways to Control an Invasive Species Upcoming Conferences: Pesticide Stewardship, Forestry, Health & Safety... July 2002 Issue # 195 "Pharm Farming": It's Not Your Father's Agriculture A Good Year for the Ladies: Ladybird Beetles in Eastern Washington Organic Farming Continues to Expand New Biotech Crops Publication Released Announcements and Upcoming Conferences June 2002 Issue # 194 Pesticide Exposure Monitoring: Background and Perspectives on Mandatory Cholinesterase Testing It's Not Nice to Ignore the Queen (QBL) Natural Enemies: A New Weapon in the War on Hop Pests Defusing Diffuse Knapweed: Biological Control of an Explosive Weed FEQL Advisory Board Meets Announcements & Upcoming Conferences May 2002 Issue # 193 Using "Soft" Pesticides to Conserve Natural Enemies in Washington Potato Fields Some Corny Ideas About Gene Flow and Biodiversity National Ag Center Aids Compliance: EPA Center Demystifies Environmental Issues Announcements & Upcoming Conferences April 2002 Issue # 192 Outsmarting the Purple Foe: Battling Purple Loosestrife with Biological Control Queen Bee of Labels' (QBL's) Royal Declaration: Clarity is Next to Godliness Confusing (and Controlling) Currant Borers: Pheromones Show Success in Prosser Red Currant Fields Announcements & Upcoming Conferences March 2002 Issue # 191   Clean Sweep 2001: Dishing the Dirt on Nationwide Pesticide Disposal Adios Azinphos-Methyl, Farewell Phosmet The Value of PMSPs: Free Workshop Offered April 9 2002 Drift Conference A Breath of Fresh Air Announcements & Upcoming Conferences February 2002 Issue # 190 Children's Pesticide Exposure in the Seattle Metropolitan Area The Wide World of Lingonberries: Stalking the Elusive Berry in Europe QBL (Queen Bee of Labels) is Now a Tabloid Queen Stewardship Alliance Making Strides: NPSA 2001 Conference Report Announcements & Upcoming Conferences January 2002 Issue # 189   Necessity is the Mother of Invention: EPA Unveils Preliminary CRA on OPs PNN Gets Good Grades from Subscribers Imidacloprid Boosts TSSM Egg Production Environmental Stewardship Awards Announcements & Upcoming Conferences 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   Agrichemical and Environmental News Archives Washington State Pest Management Resource Service (WSPRS)

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