From agdbaker@muccmail.missouri.edu Thu Sep 3 14:55:57 1998 Received: from sp2n17.missouri.edu (sp2n17-a.missouri.edu [128.206.3.17]) by are.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA05652 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 14:55:52 -0700 (PDT) From: agdbaker@muccmail.missouri.edu Received: from muccmail.missouri.edu (mailrtr.outbound.missouri.edu [128.206.2.237]) by sp2n17.missouri.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id QAA633518 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:55:41 -0500 Received: from ccMail by muccmail.missouri.edu (SMTPLINK V2.11.01) id AA904859714; Thu, 03 Sep 98 16:47:30 CST Date: Thu, 03 Sep 98 16:47:30 CST Encoding: 49 Text Message-Id: <9808039048.AA904859714@muccmail.missouri.edu> To: wps-forum@are.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: Continuing Ed for CA Applicators Help: How do you subscribe under a new address? Sorry to have sent this to the entire group. ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Continuing Ed for CA Applicators Author: wps-forum@are.Berkeley.EDU at MU-Internet Date: 8/28/98 9:45 AM "Agricultural Pesticides and Health in California" ... a short course for private and commercial applicators, safety personnel, physicians, educators, regulators, and others ... is October 15-16, 1998, at the UC Kearney Ag Center, 9240 S. Riverbend Ave., Parlier, CA. Each day starts at 8:30 a.m. Sponsors are the U.S. EPA, California's Department of Pesticide Regulation, and the UC Davis Ag Health & Safety Center. Speakers include State and federal EPA officials, physicians, academics, and two farmers. Topics include worker protection standards, injury and illness reporting requirements, health effects as a result of exposure to organophosphates and other pesticides, chronic health effects of pesticides, importance of personal protective equipment in applications, pesticide risk communication, environmental contamination and prevention, working with the public, and the regulatory future. Tuition for private sector attendees is $195 payable to UC Regents -- $100 off for government representatives. Returns include coffee, handouts, and 12 HOURS of continuing education units (CEUs) for certified private and commercial applicators and pest control advisors. To preregister, send name, business name, address, and phone #, along with payment to: COEH Continuing Education, UC Berkeley - Richmond Field Station, 1301 South 46th St., Bldg. 102, Richmond, CA 94804. For information (or registration form), call (510) 231-5645, or FAX (510) 231-5648. Steve Sutter, UC Area Personnel Management Farm Advisor 1720 S. Maple Ave., Fresno, CA 93702 (209) 456-7560 Fax (209) 456-7575 http://are.Berkeley.EDU/APMP/ From howardr@are.Berkeley.EDU Thu Sep 3 16:04:08 1998 Received: from [128.32.251.243] (gia320.ARE.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.251.243]) by are.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA11579 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:04:07 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:03:38 -0700 To: WPS-Forum@are.Berkeley.EDU From: Howard Rosenberg Subject: deferred maintenance #2: subbing and unsubbing > How do you subscribe under a new address? Now that most of our listserver functions are restored, there are three ways to subscribe and unsubscribe, and thus to change your address of record. All should have the same effect. From highest-tech to lowest, they are: 1. Go the web page http://are.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/WPS-FORUM/ . Click on the Subscribe link near the bottom of that page and fill in the form that pops up (it wants your name and new address). To keep things tidy, please then also click to and fill out the Unsubscribe link (wants only your old address). 2. Address a message, FROM your new address, TO: wps-forum-request@are.berkeley.edu and in the SUBJECT line, put the word: subscribe (nothing in the body of the message) If you still have access to the old address, send a message FROM it, similarly TO: wps-forum-request@are.berkeley.edu and in the SUBJECT line of this one, put: unsubscribe (again, nothing in the body) 3. Send me a message off-list and ask me to make the change from my "manager's" desk. Nice to again have the capacity to do this if both of the other two methods don't work out for you. --Howard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Howard Rosenberg Cooperative Ext Specialist, Ag Personnel Mgt 320 Giannini Hall Dept of Agricultural and Resource Economics Berkeley, CA 94720 University of California, Berkeley 510/642-7103 http://are.berkeley.edu/APMP/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From Craig.Harris@ssc.msu.edu Tue Sep 8 01:24:39 1998 Received: from sscntex.ssc.msu.edu (ssc.msu.edu [35.8.70.66]) by are.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA03008 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 01:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ssc.msu.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1461.28) id ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 04:22:31 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Harris, Craig" To: "'wps-forum@are.berkeley.edu'" Subject: labels in spanish Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 04:22:29 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1461.28) Content-Type: text/plain a question arose here yesterday to which i don't know the answer, and i'm wondering if any persons on wps-forum might have any thoughts . . . in michigan we have approximately 200 persons of hispanic background who have recently entered farm ownership/operation . . . many of them are wondering if it is possible to get spanish versions of the labels of pesticides that are registered in the u.s. . . . i don't know enough about wps to know if such labels are required by wps, and if so, where to find them any thoughts or help would be appreciated cheers, craig craig k harris dept of sociology 429b berkey hall michigan state university east lansing michigan 48824-1111 u.s.a. t: 517-355-5048 f: 517-432-2856 From pandre@mail.state.mo.us Tue Sep 8 05:49:21 1998 Received: from services.state.mo.us (services.state.mo.us [168.166.2.67]) by are.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id FAA08045 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 05:49:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.state.mo.us (oadpt-as1-24.state.mo.us [204.185.50.168]) by services.state.mo.us (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA00898; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 07:49:17 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <35F535B2.951A5EC3@mail.state.mo.us> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 06:48:34 -0700 From: Paul Andre Reply-To: pandre@mail.state.mo.us Organization: Mo. Dept. of Ag. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Harris, Craig" CC: "'wps-forum@are.berkeley.edu'" Subject: Re: labels in spanish References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Craig, It is my understanding that some labels MAY be available in Spanish. It is up to the registrants to provide them. Please avoid the temptation to have someone translate an English label into Spanish. If it doesn't come from the registrant and isn't appropriately approved, its not a legal label. -- Key ya later, Paul Paul Andre Pesticide Program Missouri Dept. of Agriculture P.O. Box 630 - 1616 Missouri Blvd. Jefferson City, MO 65102 573-751-9334 FAX 0005 www.mda.state.mo.us From Downing.Jim@epamail.epa.gov Tue Sep 8 07:54:52 1998 Received: from merlin.rtpnc.epa.gov (merlin.rtpnc.epa.gov [134.67.208.148]) by are.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA11541 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 07:54:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Downing.Jim@epamail.epa.gov Received: from myrtle.rtpnc.epa.gov by epamail.epa.gov (PMDF V5.1-10 #26439) with ESMTP id <0EYY00AJFYGIVD@epamail.epa.gov> for wps-forum@are.berkeley.edu; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 10:19:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from EPAHUB8.RTP.EPA.GOV by epamail.epa.gov (PMDF V5.1-10 #26438) with SMTP id <0EYY00F61YEDG3@epamail.epa.gov> for wps-forum@are.berkeley.edu; Tue, 08 Sep 1998 10:19:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by EPAHUB8.RTP.EPA.GOV(Lotus SMTP MTA Internal build v1.2 hotfix5 (695.1 8-14-1998)) id 85256679.004E2D28 ; Tue, 08 Sep 1998 10:13:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 10:13:15 -0400 Subject: Re: labels in spanish To: Craig.Harris@ssc.msu.edu Cc: wps-forum@are.Berkeley.EDU Message-id: <85256679.004D0234.00@EPAHUB8.RTP.EPA.GOV> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline X-Lotus-FromDomain: EPA Craig: No pesticide labels are "required" to be presented in spanish (or in any other language other than English for that matter). Registrants MAY print their labels in Spanish, however, if they choose to, then the entire text of the label must be presented in BOTH English and Spanish. (This doubles the space taken up on the product by labeling.) The WPS only requires two spanish items for only the most toxic products: PELIGRO for those products requiring the DANGER signal word, and the statement about "If you do not understand the label, find someone to explain it to you in detail.". Perhaps, more spanish language on labels would be good, but current policy and regulations do not require much in the way of languages other than English. All labels sold in this country must be in English. That's the minimum standard. Hope that helps at least a little bit. Jim Downing The Labeling Team Office of Pesticide Programs, EPA 703-308-9071 Craig.Harris@ssc.msu.edu on 09/08/98 04:22:29 AM To: wps-forum@are.berkeley.edu cc: Subject: labels in spanish a question arose here yesterday to which i don't know the answer, and i'm wondering if any persons on wps-forum might have any thoughts . . . in michigan we have approximately 200 persons of hispanic background who have recently entered farm ownership/operation . . . many of them are wondering if it is possible to get spanish versions of the labels of pesticides that are registered in the u.s. . . . i don't know enough about wps to know if such labels are required by wps, and if so, where to find them any thoughts or help would be appreciated cheers, craig craig k harris dept of sociology 429b berkey hall michigan state university east lansing michigan 48824-1111 u.s.a. t: 517-355-5048 f: 517-432-2856 From BAUMGARTNER.DONALD@epamail.epa.gov Tue Sep 8 07:54:54 1998 Received: from merlin.rtpnc.epa.gov (merlin.rtpnc.epa.gov [134.67.208.148]) by are.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA11553 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 07:54:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from R5smtp2.r05tok.epa.gov by epamail.epa.gov (PMDF V5.1-10 #26439) with SMTP id <0EYY00OV6Y1V1X@epamail.epa.gov> for wps-forum@are.Berkeley.EDU; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 10:10:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from R5CHG-Message_Server by R5smtp2.r05tok.epa.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 08 Sep 1998 09:04:45 -0500 Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 09:03:12 -0500 From: DONALD BAUMGARTNER Subject: labels in spanish -Reply To: wps-forum@are.Berkeley.EDU Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Content-type: text/plain Content-disposition: inline Dear Craig, As Paul had responded, be VERY cautious in this area of Spanish pesticide labels. I checked with EPA HQ some time ago on this issue, and was told that there are NO accepted labels in Spanish. However, some CES agents HAVE seen Spanish labels which we are lead to believe are actual labels from Mexico (produced by registrants) or elsewhere for the same products - the problem is that Mexican product labels may NOT be exactly the same as in the U.S. Some States REQUIRE that ALL certification exams be giving ONLY in English for this reason (all labels in English). >>> 09/08/98 03:26am >>> a question arose here yesterday to which i don't know the answer, and i'm wondering if any persons on wps-forum might have any thoughts . . . in michigan we have approximately 200 persons of hispanic background who have recently entered farm ownership/operation . . . many of them are wondering if it is possible to get spanish versions of the labels of pesticides that are registered in the u.s. . . . i don't know enough about wps to know if such labels are required by wps, and if so, where to find them any thoughts or help would be appreciated cheers, craig craig k harris dept of sociology 429b berkey hall michigan state university east lansing michigan 48824-1111 u.s.a. t: 517-355-5048 f: 517-432-2856 From RRoach@compuserve.com Tue Sep 8 21:22:21 1998 Received: from dub-img-9.compuserve.com (dub-img-9.compuserve.com [149.174.206.139]) by are.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA16913 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 21:22:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dub-img-9.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/2.14) id AAA05558 for wps-forum@are.berkeley.edu; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 00:21:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 00:21:27 -0400 From: Robert Roach Subject: Spanish Labels Sender: Robert Roach To: "'WPS-Forum'" Message-ID: <199809090021_MC2-58CE-14B2@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by are.Berkeley.EDU id VAA16913 Craig, Pesticide Labels in Spanish are neither required or approved by the U.S. EPA. Spanish labels marketed in other countries are almost certainly different from the U.S. products. If these growers are to be applicators, they must be able to read and understand the label or they must have it explained to them in a language they understand. You should find that much in Spanish on the label. In general, employees need to be given pesticide safety information in a language they can understand. Owners have the responsibility to comply with all applicable laws and regulations regardless of their ability to understand English. As far as private applicator certification of non-English speakers, how are they handling that in Michigan? In California, where we have many more Spanish-speaking growers and applicators, there is a test given in English. Bob Roach >a question arose here yesterday to which i don't know the answer, and i'm >wondering if any persons on wps-forum might have any thoughts . . . in >michigan we have approximately 200 persons of hispanic background who have >recently entered farm ownership/operation . . . many of them are wondering >if it is possible to get spanish versions of the labels of pesticides that >are registered in the u.s. . . . i don't know enough about wps to know if >such labels are required by wps, and if so, where to find them >any thoughts or help would be appreciated >cheers, >craig From howardr@are.Berkeley.EDU Fri Sep 18 11:51:16 1998 Received: from [128.32.251.243] (gia320.ARE.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.251.243]) by are.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA13877 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: howardr@are.berkeley.edu Message-Id: Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:51:20 -0700 To: wps-forum@are.Berkeley.EDU From: News Editor (by way of Howard Rosenberg) Subject: raising the stick for PCAs in CA The info below is extracted from a release issued today by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. ====================================================== Media Contacts: Veda Federighi (916) 445-3974 Glenn Brank (916) 445-3970 September 18, 1998 New Standards Proposed for Pest Control Advisers SACRAMENTO -- Cal/EPA's Department of Pesticide Regulation has proposed that prospective agricultural pest control advisers (PCAs) be required to take more college courses related to integrated pest management and sustainable agriculture. PCAs are licensed by the Department to offer recommendations to farmers and others on agricultural pest control. Upgrading the PCA educational requirements was first suggested in 1994 by DPR's Pest Management Advisory Committee. The committee concluded an upgrade was necessary if PCAs were to produce recommendations that incorporate reduced-risk pest management strategies. The proposed regulations would allow the current PCA minimum qualifications to remain in effect through December 31, 2002. This is designed to lessen the impact of the proposed changes on persons now doing course work or obtaining required technical work experience. A DPR survey indicates several state community colleges and California State University campuses offer the proposed required courses. However, the University of California, Davis, is the only UC campus which offers all the necessary courses to fulfill the proposed requirement. Other UC campuses are expected to add the required courses by the time the regulations go into effect. Copies of the proposed regulations are available on DPR's Web site , or by calling Fred Bundock at (916) 324-4194. From srsutter@ucdavis.edu Wed Sep 23 09:14:21 1998 Received: from schilling.ucdavis.edu (root@schilling.ucdavis.edu [128.120.8.1]) by are.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA15351 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:14:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ucce-fresno-004.ucnet.net ([169.228.77.196]) by schilling.ucdavis.edu (8.8.8/UCD3.12.11) with SMTP id JAA09358 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:14:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980923092000.00741e10@mailbox.ucdavis.edu> X-Sender: szsrs@mailbox.ucdavis.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:20:00 +0000 To: From: Steve Sutter Subject: wps makes its mark Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In August I surveyed my farming readers concerning their personnel and business management (educational)needs. Casually, I tossed "EPA pesticide use requirements & safety training for employees" into a list with 33 other subject areas. Guess what sorted to the top ... check out at http://are.berkeley.edu/APMP/discuss/postlist.html Steve Sutter, UC Area Personnel Management Farm Advisor 1720 S. Maple Ave., Fresno, CA 93702 (209) 456-7560 Fax (209) 456-7575 http://are.Berkeley.EDU/APMP/