NEWS AND
INFORMATION 2010
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The 2010 Certified Pesticide Applicators Conference will be held at the
Coast International Inn in Anchorage on March 26th 2010. Attendance will provide up
to 8 DEC-CEU credits. For additional information contact Dora Wainwright at 786-6319
or
dewainwright@alaska.edu
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Strategic Direction for New Pesticide Testing and Assessment
Approaches
To better protect human health and the environment, EPA has launched a new Web page that
explains the development and evaluation of new technologies in molecular, cellular, and
computational sciences to supplement or replace more traditional methods of toxicity
testing and risk assessment.
This Web page details the approach EPA's Pesticide Program is using to pursue new
technologies that predict and characterize potential human health and environmental
hazards and exposures from pesticides. It describes the current status as well as future
plans for this rapidly changing area of research and regulatory science. On this Web page
you will also find links to a glossary of key terms, information on pesticides and the
ToxCast(TM) Research Program, and a matrix of tools used for pesticide testing.
You can access this new Web page at http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/science/testing-assessment.html. |
