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Pesticide Application Equipment - How Federal Regulations on Pest Control Affect It
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Engineers have an opportunity to develop pesticide application equipment that will help prevent unreasonable adverse effects of pesticides on the environment, including humans. Recent and continuing federal regulations on uses of pesticides emphasize legal requirements for specific methods of pesticide application. Also the regulations incite development of pesticide application techniques that would allow restricted use pesticide product labels to be changed to the general use classification. The product could then be used by the general public, as opposed to only those certified as competent to use the otherwise restricted product.
Among present needs are improvements in, or development of: positive shut-off nozzles, calibration-sensitive granule applicators, soil incorporation of pesticide granules, planting time placement of soil-incorporated insecticide that is mixed with either dry or liquid fertilizer, post crop emergence soil pesticide incorporation, dry bait placement at plant base, dry bait broadcasting, and metering controls.
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Fisher, E., "Pesticide Application Equipment - How Federal Regulations on Pest Control Affect It," SAE Technical Paper 750782, 1975, https://doi.org/10.4271/750782.Also In
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- Quarles John “Proposed Registration, Reregistration, and Classification Procedures” Federal Register 39 201 October 16 1974
- 92nd Congress, H. R. 10729 (Public Law 92-516) “Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act of 1972” October 21 1972
- EPA “Draft of Section 3 Regulations” Operations Division, Office Of Pesticide Programs (WH-570) March 25 1975