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Advisors Criticize Pesticide Worker Protection Exemptions As Feds Seek Implementation Advice


November 17, 2015 at 02:24 PM
An advisory group to the Environmental Protection Agency is stressing the need for educational outreach to inform family farms of pesticides' risks, arguing an exemption in newly finalized standards intended to protect farm workers from pesticide exposures fails to protect the children of family farmers.

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