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In one case where a 16-year-old North Carolina youth died, 

 investigators reported that he had apparently entered a tobacco 

 field the day after it had been treated with parathion despite 

 label warnings that such fields should not be entered until five 

 days after treatment 



was 



The U. S. Department of Agriculture is carefully reviewing 

 the accident history of parathion to determine if the present label- 

 ing requirements are adequate. The Department i^ also meeting with 

 state officials and other groups in order to fully evaluate the 

 hazards of parathion use and to consider ways of restricting these 

 uses if necessary to prevent injury to people." 



We repeat! Pesticide safety is your business. Know the pes- 

 ticide you use. Read the label and follow all safety precautions 

 and suggestions. Tragedies will only bring on more and more pesti- 

 cide use restrictions. 



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DANGERS INVOLVED IN HANDLING PESTICIDES 

 AND DISPOSING OF "EMPTY" CONTAINERS 



1 



A. VanVranken DesForges, Professor of Civil and Environmental En^ 

 gineering. Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. 



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Many growers now have far less of a storage problem than was 

 'ly the case, as they tend to buy from "spray to spray," there- 



I. Storage of Pesticides : Grower storage facilities for pesti- 

 cides vary much more widely than do those of distributors or deal 



ers 



former ly 



by letting the distributor or dealer do their long term, heavy 

 storing for them. Nevertheless, there are still many grower stor- 

 age problems. These include trying to meet the basic specifica- 

 tions of ventilation, dryness, temperature control, proximity of 

 water, light, isolation and security. Few achieve all of these 

 qualifications for a safe storage. 



^Excerpts of an address delivered by VanVranken DesForges before 

 the New York State Horticultural Society in 1969. Printed with 

 his permission. 



