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Advocates: EPA's Farmworker Pesticide Protections Stop Short Of OSHA Standard


February 25, 2014 at 09:05 PM
Environmentalists and worker advocates say EPA's long-awaited proposal to protect farmworkers from pesticide exposures largely fails to protect pesticide applicators and they are vowing to push for additional protections, in a rule they say is needed because EPA's registrations do not adequately assess worker risks.

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