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(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, January 8, 2018)\u00a0 With a long-documented history of children\u2019s exposure \"\"to pesticides that drift from agricultural fields to school yards, California\u2019s new regulations establishing no-spray buffers took effort January 1, as labor and public health groups acknowledged the progress and inadequacy of the measure. The new rule, DPR 16-004 Pesticide Use Near Schoolsites<\/a>, adopted by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR), prohibits many pesticide applications within a quarter mile of public K-12 schools and licensed child day-care facilities during school hours, Monday through Friday between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. This includes all applications by aircraft, sprinklers, air-blast sprayers, and all fumigant applications. In addition, most dust and powder pesticide applications, such as sulfur, will also be prohibited during this time. The new rule was announced in November, 2017.<\/p>\n

Advocates say the new rules fail\u00a0to address persistent low-level\u00a0exposures associated with the use of the pesticides near schools, which are in agricultural areas that are disproportionately Latino and from farmworker families. There is continuing concern about children\u2019s exposure to hazardous pesticides because children use school grounds after school hours and on weekends and residues from drift may remain on school grounds. Many pesticides used are persistent and\u00a0systemic, lingering in the air and on surfaces\u00a0long after they are applied. In fact, 2016 air monitoring data found pesticide residues at levels more than 18\u00a0times federal standards\u00a0on the campus\u00a0of\u00a0Shafter High School in Kern County.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

After two years of contentious\u00a0debate, and more\u00a0than\u00a019,000 public\u00a0comments, hearings and workshops, DPR, a division of the state\u2019s Environmental Protection Agency, adopted the\u00a0regulation.\u00a0DPR invited public comment on the regulation<\/a> in October, 2017. The\u00a0regulations\u00a0also provide annual notification to schools\u00a0and day-care facilities of pesticides expected to be used within quarter mile of the schools by\u00a0April 30. However,\u00a0there are concerns that the notification provisions are not adequate to protect the vulnerable because of the inability to avoid exposure. The law will affect about 4,100 public schools and licensed child day-care facilities and approximately 2,500 growers.<\/p>\n

DPR notes that the state has some of the\u00a0most restrictive\u00a0pesticide\u00a0regulations\u00a0in the country, but population growth\u00a0has created a growing number of situations where schools and day-care facilities are located near or directly adjacent to working farms, increasing the potential for unintended exposures to pesticides.\u00a0Many\u00a0counties have\u00a0adopted local rules related to pesticide applications near schools and day-care centers, but until now, there was no consistent, statewide standard. Now, DPR states\u00a0the new regulations will allow\u00a0schools,\u00a0growers and\u00a0county agricultural commissioners “to devise alternative application restrictions that provide an equal or greater level of protection to those provided by the regulation.”<\/p>\n

Intense pressure from the industry, resulted in a weakening of the\u00a0draft proposed regulation<\/a>. For example, the original proposal required growers give schools 48-hour notice of any pesticide use planned within a quarter mile was removed from the final regulation, leaving only the requirement to provide general notice to schools of possible pesticide use over the year. At that time, concerned parents and advocates said it was\u00a0unacceptable for DPR to water down already insufficient protections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the quarter mile buffer zone\u00a0creates a standard across the entire state,\u00a0scientific\u00a0evidence\u00a0and recent incidents in the state point\u00a0to a need for a much larger buffer\u00a0zone. In spring 2017, dozens of farmworkers were harmed when pesticides, including the\u00a0controversial chlorpyrifos<\/a>,\u00a0drifted more than half a mile<\/a>\u00a0from the application site.<\/p>\n

A\u00a02014 California Department of Public Health (CDPH) report<\/a>\u00a0on pesticide use near schools\u00a0revealed that there are\u00a0140 highly hazardous pesticides associated with\u00a0cancer, reproductive and developmental harm and damage to the nervous system\u00a0used in close proximity to schools;\u00a0over 118,000 students attend school in close proximity to the heaviest use of\u00a0pesticides; and\u00a0Latino schoolchildren are 91% more likely than white students to be exposed to the highest levels of hazardous pesticides.<\/p>\n

Children\u00a0exposed to high levels of pesticides\u00a0like the organophosphate insecticide chlorpyrifos<\/a> have\u00a0developmental delays, attention problems, attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder problems, and pervasive developmental disorders. Most recently, researchers at the\u00a0University\u00a0of California, Santa Barbara,\u00a0analyzing\u00a0500,000 birth observations,\u00a0report\u00a0that exposure to pesticides as a result of living\u00a0in\u00a0the agriculturally dominated San Joaquin Valley\u00a0increases the risk of giving birth to a baby with abnormalities<\/a>.\u00a0A 2014 study conducted by the UC Davis Mind Institute also\u00a0found that pregnant women who lived within a mile of fields where chlorpyrifos was sprayed more than\u00a0tripled their chances of giving birth to a child with autism<\/a>.\u00a0Additionally, the UC Berkeley CHAMACOS team, studying organophosphate impacts on women and children in the Salinas Valley, found that every 522 pounds of combined organophosphate pesticide applications within one kilometer of a pregnant woman\u2019s home\u00a0correlates with a two point IQ loss<\/a>\u00a0in her children at seven years old.\u00a0A 2016 study published in\u00a0The Lancet<\/em><\/a>\u00a0estimated that organophosphate pesticide exposure, insecticides often used for agricultural purposes, resulted in 1.8 million lost IQ points, and 7.5 thousand intellectual disability cases annually at an estimated cost of $44.7 billion each year. Of that $44.7 billion, roughly $350 million in costs can be attributed to California, proportionately.<\/p>\n

Although California\u2019s statewide regulation is a start, its numerous shortcomings\u00a0demonstrate the clear and present need to transition to least-toxic alternatives, and to eventually phase-out\u00a0chemical-intensive agriculture. It is not enough to simply prohibit spraying toxic chemicals near schools \u201cat certain times.\u201d Dosing fields with hazardous agricultural pesticides must become a thing of the past.\u00a0A wide variety of alternative practices and products are available to assist growers in preventing pest problems before they start.\u00a0Organic agriculture<\/a>,\u00a0which requires farmers to improve soil health and craft an organic system plan to guide pest control decisions, represents a viable path forward for agriculture in California and beyond.<\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0\u00a0California Department of Pesticide Regulation<\/a>; Pesticide Action Network North America;\u00a0<\/a>KEYT News<\/a><\/p>\n

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