Farm workers are being sickened by agrochemicals—and, due to extreme heat, by the PPE they wear to protect themselves. Harrison Watson August 15, 2023 Every year, pesticides sicken 300,000 farm ...

Personal protective equipment, or PPE, is necessary to protect farmers and other agricultural workers from pesticides, grain dust, mold, and other hazards. The COVID-19 global pandemic, however, ha… ...

A tractor sprays pesticides on a Lousiana cotton field. Many farm workers and others rely on N95 masks to protect them from exposure to pesticides and herbicides, which often pose serious health ...

3M, a major PPE manufacturer, is making N95 respirators “at a rate of nearly 50 million per month in the U.S., with the majority going to health care and public health workers,” and the rest ...

While Spanish is the dominant language for 62 percent of farmworkers in the U.S., pesticide labels are typically only printed in English. “We’ve been fighting for bilingual pesticide labels for 15 or ...

On May 28, 2019, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) ... Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Requirements, regulated under 3 C.C.R. § 6738.

(Beyond Pesticides, September 19, 2024) An article published in the journal Science of the Total Environment finds that the European Union’s (EU) risk assessment process, required for registration, ...

California launched a new statewide online pesticide notification system this week that will warn farmworkers beforehand of upcoming pesticide applications. The California Department of Pesticide ...

Research supports pesticide use as a vital tool to help feed the world and make society possible, writes Jolene Riessen. News Sports Opinion Business Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.

A new study claims an organic diet can significantly reduce pesticide levels, but the research doesn’t hold up. Published February 12 in the journal Environmental Research, the authors of the ...