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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a federal agency responsible for the development and enforcement of regulations for human health and environment protection. The agency researches and sets standards for environmental programs and delegates. It was founded in 1970 following the proposal ...
The process of exchanging information about levels or significance of health or environmental risk.
Industry:Agricultural chemicals
A characteristic (e.g., race, sex, age, obesity) or variable (e.g., smoking, exposure) associated with increased chance of toxic effects. Some standard risk factors used in general risk assessment calculations include average breathing rates, average weight, and average human life span.
Industry:Agricultural chemicals
A pesticide or other agent used to kill rats and other rodents or to prevent them from damaging food, crops, or forage.
Industry:Agricultural chemicals
The way a chemical enters an organism after contact (e.g., ingestion, inhalation, or dermal absorption).
Industry:Agricultural chemicals
Pesticides designated as “safer” (or “reduced-risk”) by EPA due to favorable characteristics affecting health or environmental risks, resistance management and integrated pest management. Safer pesticides may be conventional pesticides posing less risk or be biopesticides with unique modes of action, low use volume, lower toxicity, target species specificity or natural occurrence.
Industry:Agricultural chemicals
OPP reviews various pesticide studies, such as toxicology, environmental fate and groundwater, ecological effects, and product chemistry. See Cleared Reviews, DERs.
Industry:Agricultural chemicals
Topsoil, sand, and minerals washed from the land into water, usually after rain or snow melt. Sediments collecting in rivers, reservoirs, and harbors can destroy fish and wildlife habitat and cloud the water so that sunlight cannot reach aquatic plants. Loss of topsoil from farming, mining, or building activities can be prevented through a variety of erosion-control techniques.
Industry:Agricultural chemicals
A channel or conduit that carries wastewater and stormwater to a treatment plant or receiving waters. "Sanitary" sewers carry household, industrial, and commercial waste. "Storm" sewers carry runoff from rain or snow.
Industry:Agricultural chemicals
