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Action #1: 12/14/2023 – VENTURA – Attend a meeting! Pesticide Notification Public Hearing In Ventura (4:30 pm) Ventura County Fairgrounds, Santa Rosa Hall, 10 West Harbor Blvd., Ventura.
On Thursday afternoon, we have an opportunity locally to speak out for Environmental Justice, calling for the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) to protect farmworkers (and schoolchildren, and the rest of us!) from fumigant pesticide exposure. DPR is taking comments regarding their statewide program for notification of the application of certain pesticides–we must let them know that their system needs to be more specific than they have planned right now.
Public health data show that the incident of childhood asthma is increasing, and in part that’s because fumigant pesticides are all too frequently applied without us knowing it. We all breathe the same air. We all need to be protected from fumigant pesticide exposure. DPR needs to step up and do that.
- NOTIFICATION: Demand that the proposed notification system inform the public of the exact location, date, and time that a pesticide will be applied so that adequate protective precautions can be taken.
- RECOMMENDED SAFETY PRECAUTIONS: Farmworkers need to know if protective clothing should be worn and specific behaviors engaged in to keep their exposure risk minimal.
- CHILD SAFETY: Schools need to know when to warn families that airborne pesticides are going to be wafting through the environment from nearby agricultural fields, threatening their children’s well-being.
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