For February 15, 2007:  PIRT Agenda

Invited Speakers: 

• Dr. Vincent Hebert, MITC Residential Community Air Assessment; South Franklin County, Washington, Washington State University, Food and Environmental Quality Laboratory, The Food and Environmental Laboratory (FEQL) legislative mandate (PDF taken from PowerPoint presentation)

• Randy Segawa, California Department of Pesticide Regulation, speaking about Air Monitoring in California, California's Regulatory Program for Pesticides in Air (PDF taken from PowerPoint presentation)

Drift-Related Materials Submitted to PIRT

• Community Air Monitoring for Chlorpyrifos in the Northern Yakima Valley, created by Carol Dansereau from the Farm Worker Pesticide Project, December 2006;  (PDF, taken from a PowerPoint presentation)

• Community Exposures to Airborne Agricultural Pesticides in California:  Ranking of Inhalation Risks, by Sharon Lee et al, article in Environmental Health Perspectives, December 2002

• Community Air Monitoring for Chlorpyrifos in the Northern Yakima Valley, created by the Farm Worker Pesticide Project and the Pesticide Action Network North America- Report - Poisons on the Wind, December 2006

• Yao, et al, Spatial and temporal distribution of pesticide air concentrations in Canadian agricultural regions, article in Atmospheric Environment 40 (2006) 4339-4351 http://www.sciencedirect.com

• Letter to Rob Duff from Dow AgroSciences, Bryan L Stuart, Ph.D January 16, 2007 (PDF)

• Gregg Grunenfelder e-mail response to Poisons on the Wind report to Ms. Dansereau, December 22, 2006 (PDF)

• Dow AgroSciences document - Comments on Representations Relative to Chlorpyrifos in 'Poisons on the Wind'(Word)

• Drift Distances Vary, created by the Washington State Department of Agriculture, 2004 (PDF)

• Drift Studies, created by Steven Gilbert, Toxicologist (Word)

• MITC Residential Community Air Assessment; South Franklin County, Washington, Study Number FEQL-NG-0605, by Dr. Vincent R. Hebert, Washington State University, Food and Environmental Quality Laboratory, 2006

• Draft PIRT Drift Resolution on Drift to be used by the PIRT panel, submitted by Steven Gilbert January 1, 2007 (PDF)

• PIRT Pesticide Drift Data on Human Illness and Injury, PowerPoint Presentation - Barbara Morrissey, Washington State Department of Health, 2004-2005 (PDF)

• Proximity to Schools created by the Washington State Department of Agriculture (PDF)

• Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) Pesticide Notes, "Recent drift complaints around schools prompt WSDA review" page 6, July 2001

Citations of Recent Research on Pesticide Exposure and Health Effects   Submitted to PIRT

• Eskenazi et al, Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure and Neurodevelopment in Young Mexican-American Children, article in Environmental Health Perspectives, January 4, 2007 (PDF)

• Impact of Prenatal Chlorpyrifos Exposure on Neurodevelopment in the First 3 Years of Life Among Inner-City Children, Journal of the American Academy Pediatrics, December 4, 2006 (PDF)

Pesticide Related Bills and Other Legislative Information

• House Bill 1810, Creating a project to monitor pesticide drift and its impacts

• Letter to Representative Campbell from Gregg Grunenfelder re: HB 1810

• House Bill 1806, Limiting the use of high hazard pesticides on school facilities

• House Bill 1946, Establishing a pesticide use reporting system