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Safe Pesticide Handling Index

1.  Safety: Apply It First - a program, sponsored by several agricultural chemical manufacturers, designed to encourage stewardship of organophosphate and carbamate pesticides

2.  Handling and Storing Pesticides - An environmental self-assessment from the South Carolina Farm-A-Syst Program. Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service Water Quality Letter 17 (WQL 17). February 1996. 15pp (PDF).

3.  Additional Safe Pesticide Handling web sites and publications
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Additional Safe Pesticide Handling web sites and publications:

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  1. A Pesticide Mixing and Loading Checklist - a pesticide stewardship publication from Croplife Foundation.
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  2. Planning Emergency Response to Pesticide Spills - a pesticide stewardship publication from Croplife Foundation.
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  3. Using Agricultural Pesticides Safely - a pesticide stewardship publication from Croplife Foundation.
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  4. "Storm-Damaged Agrichemical Facilities" - this fact sheet from the University of Florida IFAS provides guidelines useful for persons or organizations needing to secure pesticides and other agricultural chemicals that have been subjected to severe storm conditions.
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  5. Rodent Control Safety Checklist (PDF) - from an article by Paul J. Bello in Palmetto Pestalk, January 2002.
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  6. Pesticide Management - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Pesticide Management Unit.
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