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Take Action: Tell California Department of Pesticide Regulation to Ban Chlorpyrifos
(Beyond Pesticides, October 22, 2018) The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) is accepting comments on its proposal to classify chlorpyrifos as a toxic air pollutant. The classification would require DPR to develop control measures that adequately protect public health. What happens in California affects all of us because products of California agriculture are available all over the country –and the world. In addition, policies set by the state of California are often examples for other states and the federal government.
Tell California Department of Pesticide Regulation to ban chlorpyrifos.
California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) states:
Under the Toxic Air Contaminant Identification and Control Act (AB 1807, Chapter 1047, Statutes of 1983) and its implementing regulations (Title 3, California Code of Regulations, Section 6864), one of the criteria for identifying a pesticide as a TAC is if its concentration in the air exceeds one-tenth of the level that has been determined to be adequately protective of human health. The draft TAC document shows that bystanders can be exposed to modeled air concentrations of chlorpyrifos that exceed one-tenth the protective level, and thus meet the criteria for TAC identification. OEHHA’s findings below serve to reinforce this overall conclusion, and further support the identification of chlorpyrifos as a TAC.
In addition to modeled results, OEHHA found that those exposed to chlorpyrifos during 2004-2014 most often reported systemic symptoms including (including headache, nausea and dizziness), eye irritation, and respiratory complaints (breathing difficulties, cough, and throat irritation). Almost 90% of those reporting such symptoms were bystanders.
OEHHA points out that many studies link exposure to chlorpyrifos to developmental neurotoxicity at very low rates of exposure, and this has been confirmed by the state’s Proposition 65 Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee. In addition, children may be bystanders exposed to chlorpyrifos who may suffer greater respiratory effects because of their developing lungs.
The details of the assessment support OEHHA’s conclusion that chlorpyrifos is a toxic air contaminant requiring control measures that adequately protect human health. Given the range of toxic impacts at low levels of exposure, DPR must cancel the registration of chlorpyrifos.
Tell California Department of Pesticide Regulation to ban chlorpyrifos.
 Letter to DPR:
The review by California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) demonstrates that chlorpyrifos is a toxic air contaminant requiring the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) to develop control measures that adequately protect public health.
California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) states:
Under the Toxic Air Contaminant Identification and Control Act (AB 1807, Chapter 1047, Statutes of 1983) and its implementing regulations (Title 3, California Code of Regulations, Section 6864), one of the criteria for identifying a pesticide as a TAC is if its concentration in the air exceeds one-tenth of the level that has been determined to be adequately protective of human health. The draft TAC document shows that bystanders can be exposed to modeled air concentrations of chlorpyrifos that exceed one-tenth the protective level, and thus meet the criteria for TAC identification. OEHHA’s findings below serve to reinforce this overall conclusion, and further support the identification of chlorpyrifos as a TAC.
In addition to modeled results, OEHHA found that those exposed to chlorpyrifos during 2004-2014 most often reported systemic symptoms including (including headache, nausea and dizziness), eye irritation, and respiratory complaints (breathing difficulties, cough, and throat irritation). Almost 90% of those reporting such symptoms were bystanders.
OEHHA points out that many studies link exposure to chlorpyrifos to developmental neurotoxicity at very low rates of exposure, and this has been confirmed by the state’s Proposition 65 Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee. In addition, children may be bystanders exposed to chlorpyrifos who may suffer greater respiratory effects because of their developing lungs.
The details of the assessment support OEHHA’s conclusion that chlorpyrifos is a toxic air contaminant requiring control measures that adequately protect human health. Given the range of toxic impacts at low levels of exposure, DPR must cancel the registration of chlorpyrifos.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
and you want me to buy your food crops. I read labels and I taught my children to do the same.
October 22nd, 2018 at 11:36 amBan Chlorprifos please! Thank you!!
October 22nd, 2018 at 5:09 pmGrow without pesticides
October 23rd, 2018 at 12:33 pmIsn’t it obvious? Chlorpyrifos is simply too toxic for California. Please classify chlorpyrifos as a toxic air pollutant. Thank you.
October 23rd, 2018 at 3:09 pmWhat part of the SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN FACTS FOR DECADES that politicians DO NOT COMPREHEND!!! Without bees, trees, clean water, other insects, birds…humans CANNOT AND WILL NOT SURVIVE WITHOUT ALL THESE PARTS OF NATURE!! STOP KILLING WHAT IS LEFT OF AN ALREADY DYING PLANET!!!
October 23rd, 2018 at 3:27 pmThis is LONG overdue!
October 24th, 2018 at 12:52 pmban chlorpyrifos as a toxic air pollutant
September 3rd, 2019 at 12:49 pm