DPR launches Web-based special local needs pesticides database

The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) has developed an easy-to-use, Web-based database to provide access to special local needs (SLN) pesticides registrations, Chief Deputy Director Chris Reardon announced. States have authority to register additional uses of a federally registered pesticide if there is a demonstrated local need.

However, pesticides must first be registered by both the US Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and DPR before they can be sold or used in California or registered as a SLN. Over the years, DPR has issued hundreds of SLNs, some of which are registered for use in a specific county and others approved for use statewide. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers