OrganicAuthority.com - Organic Blog » chlorpyrifos http://www.organicauthority.com/blog Organic Authority - organic food, organic living, green living, organic thoughts. Sat, 18 May 2013 08:29:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 EPA Restricts Use of Potato Fungicide, Dismisses Petition for All-Out Ban http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/organic/epa-restricts-use-of-potato-fungicide-dismisses-petition-for-all-out-ban/ http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/organic/epa-restricts-use-of-potato-fungicide-dismisses-petition-for-all-out-ban/#comments Sat, 28 Jul 2012 08:23:38 +0000 Jill Ettinger http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/?p=11133 Pesticide

Last week, the EPA announced new regulations on use of the fungicide, chlorpyrifos, a known toxin commonly used on potato crops. The new ruling will lower the allowable applications and the restrictions will be on product labels later this year, the agency reports in a statement released on the EPA website.

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