Pest Management Professional, April 2012
RODENT MANAGEMENT SERIES Part 1 of 6 T he recent revisions to rodenticide product labels the second in the past several months is the culmination of more than a year of dialogue among the National Pest Management Association NPMA the Association of Structural Pest Control Regulatory Officials ASPCRO and the U S Environmental Protection Agency EPA The latest changes extend the distance bait may be placed from buildings replace the word buildings with the phrase man made structures and clarify permitted burrow baiting practices The newly approved changes to the rodenticide labels will allow pest management professionals PMPs the necessary flexibility to manage dangerous destructive rodent infestations more effectively says Chris Gorecki Orkins vice president of government Sweet Save affairs and the chairman of NPMAs Government Affairs Committee The label changes are a vast improvement that will allow the professional pest management industry to service its clients and protect public health better Extending the distance The most frequent concern NPMA staff heard from PMPs about the language added to rodenticide product labels last June was the prohibition of the bait placement farther than 50 feet from buildings We received a lot of calls from PMPs concerned about not being able to continue to use rodenticides at their long standing accounts says Jim Fredericks NPMAs director of technical services Through these phone calls we were able to develop a compelling list to provide EPA officials with examples of settings where its necessary to use products more than 50 feet from buildings to control rodent infestations Before the language restricting the placement of rodenticide bait to within 50 feet of buildings product labels permitted rodenticide use in and around U S Environmental Protection Agency modifies its recent Risk Mitigation Decision for Ten Rodenticides the changes will require revised labels but also will fortify control measures By Bob Rosenberg Gene Harrington Contributors 20 April 2012 Pest Management Professional mypmp net
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