NEWS AND
INFORMATION for 2011
EPA is releasing a new Pesticide Product Label System
(PPLS) Web application. PPLS is a collection of over 170,000 current and historical
pesticide product labels that have been approved by EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs
under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. This new version of PPLS
contains many enhanced features to help users locate the labels they need. Using the new
system, you will be able to:
- Search by product name
- Search by company name
- Search by EPA Registration Number
- View labels in PDF format
- Search label content
- View the history of products that have been transferred from one company to another
This improved Web application furthers EPA's goal of transparency and can be viewed at http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/ppls.
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The Center for Integrated Pest Management has launched the new
Pesticide Environmental Stewardship website. This site is designed for anyone who
applies, sells, stores or disposes of pesticides. The new website complements the
work of Extension agents and Pesticide Safety Education Programs. It covers a wide
variety of stewardship topics ranging from storage, handling and disposal, drift runoff
and has an extensive section for Homeowners. This website can be found at: http://pesticidestewardship.org/Pages/PES-Contents.aspx
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EPA Offers New Bed Bug Information for Consumers at:
http://www.epa.gov/bedbugs/
This site has information on control, detection, treatments, biology and
more.With all the current newspsper coverage this site has good research based
information.
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New Publication from National Center for Healthy Housing on "What's
Working for Bed Bug Control in Multifamily Housing" Reconconciling best
practices with research and the realities of implementation.
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