A pesticide that has been banned for a decade is still showing up in Long Beach and other communities near shipping yards The air in Long Beach and other communities near shipping yards is tainted by methyl bromide, a fumigant that was technically banned decades ago.

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Judge upholds status quo process for pesticide application permits. Read the full article on Monterey County Now.

Judge upholds status quo process for pesticide application permits. #pesticidepermits #montereycounty #agriculture #fumigants

Seeking Participants for Post-Harvest Commodity Fumigants Roundtable - California Council on Science & Technology (CCST) Insights from the post-harvest commodity fumigants roundtable will be synthesized and delivered to the California Department of Pesticide Regulation.

Call for Experts: Post-Harvest Commodity Fumigants Roundtable

Insights from the roundtable will be synthesized and delivered to the California Department of Pesticide Regulation as a standalone product within CCST's Fumigants Alternatives Study.

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Protect Farmworkers From Highly Toxic Fumigants! >>Tell EPA and Congress to cancel the registration of all toxic soil fumigants and encourage organic alternatives! Plus, an opportunity to submit comments to CDPR!

🎯 So, it is with deep concern that @beyondpesticides.org is urging the state of #California, where #13D is undergoing review, to #ban the #toxicant.

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Grain Fumigants Market size worth US$2,078.855 million by 2029 The grain fumigants market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 4.16% during the forecasted period, to reach US$2,078.855 million by 2029.

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Protect Farmworkers From Highly Toxic Fumigants >>Tell EPA, Congress, and CDPR to cancel the registration of all toxic soil fumigants and encourage organic alternatives.

It is outrageous that @EPA would allow #farmworkers—"essential" during the pandemic—to be routinely exposed to highly toxic #pesticides & #fumigants, which #organic practices could replace.

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California Strawberry Production Thrives as Regulators Allow Elevated Hazards - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, November 13, 2014) In an investigative report, Dark Side of the Strawberry, Center for Investigative Reporting provides a sordid story and analysis of  the rise of one of California’s most prized crops, strawberries, while state  regulators  ignored public health and environmental risks associated with the pesticides used in their production. The report focuses on a pesticide called 1,3-Dichloropropene (1,3-D), a restricted use soil  fumigant used to kill nematodes, insects, and weeds, that has strong links to cancer and other serious health issues. The use of the chemical in the production of strawberries came into prominence with the forced reduction of another fumigant, methyl bromide. As the report chronicles, besides the many other issues associated with methyl bromide, scientists began to become concerned sometime in 1970s that escaped methyl bromide gas had serious effects on the ozone and was blamed for between 5 and 10 percent of ozone depletion. With the signing of Montreal Protocol in 1987, a treaty that President Reagan signed on behalf of the U.S., methyl bromide became the only pesticide to be banned by treaty, a ban meant to be in full effect by 2005. While the European Union and other industrialized nations followed through […]

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California Plan Falls Short of Reducing Soil Fumigants - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, April 11, 2013) A report released Tuesday by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) lays out an “Action Plan” to reduce farmer’s reliance on toxic soil fumigants. The plan was created by the Nonfumigant Strawberry Production Working Group, which was made up of scientists, growers, and other specialists. The working group was assembled in April 2012 because of the health and environmental concerns posed by the continued use of soil fumigants in strawberry production. The working group was asked to develop an action plan of research priorities for developing nonfumigant management strategies. However, even as the working group acknowledged the health and environmental risks posed by the continued use of fumigants, the plan remained conservative in its recommendations; it concluded that, “Even with full commitment to implement this action plan, the strawberry industry will need to continue its use of fumigants for years to remain viable in California,” even though growing strawberries organically without the use of fumigants has been shown to be effective. The working group was most concerned about the continued use of methyl bromide. Historically methyl bromide has been used as a fumigant to eliminate the threat of soil borne pests. Methyl bromide has […]

California Plan Falls Short of Reducing Soil #Fumigants.

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