Pesticides A Toxic Time Bomb in Our Midst

environments expose children to high levels of toxic substances, from industrial- strength pesticides to harmful building and cl ...

The Nature of Exposure Despite the widespread use of pesticides, often only limited precautions are taken in terms of warning si ...

school buildings; 32 percent sprayed pesticides routinely regardless of whether there was a pest problem.^5 A 1998 survey of Cal ...

the United States under age eighteen suffer from one or more learning, developmental, or behavioral disabilities. According to c ...

million for students and 27.3 cases per million for employees. It also emphasized that individuals had to seek medical care and ...

Fallacy #3: Schools should not be burdened with providing the entire school com- munity prior notification of pesticide applicat ...

grounds be done by a licensed professional, they nevertheless may pose risks to adults, adolescents, and individuals with health ...

access, improving sanitation around food preparation and waste/recycling storage areas, and limiting where food can be eaten wil ...

person responsible for pest management within the district. Because of this, it often takes many calls to simply determine who t ...

Compare the total costs of a conventional pest management program with the costs of an IPM program. Instead of routinely sprayin ...

programs may require no treatments at all. Short-term costs may include IPM train- ing, new equipment purchases, hiring an IPM c ...

spent the first years doing some preventative maintenance such as putting plastic lin- ing under the bleachers and deeply aerati ...

Status of State Pesticide Laws Federal legislation to require safer pest control in schools has been stalled in the U.S. House o ...

But these laws are hardly uniform. Alabama outlaws aerial spraying or dusting within 400 feet of school grounds. Louisiana broad ...

Impact of the Healthy Schools Act Although many of California’s largest school districts have moved to reduce the use of dangero ...

These are called high-hazard pesticides. In a 1998 survey by the Washington Toxics Coalition, 88 percent of thirty-three school ...

seventy-two hours. It takes time for pesticides to break down and some pesticide resi- dues can last for weeks. Signs should als ...

From time to time, it may be necessary to use chemicals to manage a pest prob- lem. Chemicals will only be used when necessary, ...

support for such requests, as well as requests to correct other reported problems (such as inadequate sanitation or improper man ...

people; are in contact with staff, students, families, and community members; and have credibility and access that enables them ...