Affiliated Organizations

 

California Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR)

 

University of California, Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

 

Pesticide Action Network of North America (PANNA)

 

US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

 

National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC)

 

United States Geological Survey (USGS)

 

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

General PUR Information

 

CDPR: Pesticide Use Reporting (PUR)

  • Summaries of pesticide use reports
  • Analyses of pesticide use trends
  • Generate tables using the Pesticide Use Report database

 

IPM: California Pesticide Use Summaries Database

  • Definition of terminology used in summaries
  • History and benefits of PUR
  • How to interpret summaries

 

Pesticide Action Network (PAN): Online documentation about PUR data

  • Frequently asked questions concerning how data is reported, processed and interpreted
  • Details about the PUR data set

 

EPA: Pesticide Industry Sales and Usage

  • Economic profile information on pesticide production and usage

Pesticide Use Information

 

National Pesticide Information Center

 

Extoxnet: The Extension Toxicology Network

  • Pesticide fact sheets
  • Toxicology concepts fact sheets

 

Pesticide Action Network: Pesticide Database

  • Pesticide toxicity and regulatory information

 

US EPA: Pesticide Fact Sheets

 

USGS

 

National Center for Food & Agricultural Policy (NCFAP) PUR Database

  • Provides national and state pesticide use data by active ingredient and crop

 

Greenbook: Pesticide Product Information

  • Pesticide product labels, supplemental labels and MSDS information

 

Crop Data Management Systems, Inc.

  • Crop protection product label, MSDS, WPS, and DOT information

 

Pesticide Properties Database

  • Pesticides organized by common name, and characterized by pesticide movement rating, soil half-life, water solubility, and sorption coefficient

 

Californians for Pesticide Reform: Regional Pesticide Use Information

  • Maps of agricultural pesticide use by county

Pesticide Use Reports

 

IPM: Pesticide Use Summaries

  • Summaries of pesticides used on California crops detailed by commodity, pesticide, county and month

 

Pesticide Action Network (PAN): PUR Query Tool

  • Search California pesticide use database
  • Listing of pesticide use on crops and California counties

 

National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) Chemical Use Data

  • 1990-2001 data by year, state or commodity
  • Graphical reports of agricultural chemical statistics
  • US Maps of agricultural chemical use statistics

 

National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy: Library of Pesticide Use Reports

  • Search reports by active ingredient, commodity, and/or state

Pesticide Use Impact Assessment

 

Pesticide Impact Assessment Systems (PDF)

  • Risk indicators based on indexing pesticides by environmental impact
  • Methods for ranking pesticides
  • Pesticide impact/ risk ranking systems

 

Pesticides and Ecological Risk Assessment

  • Federal pesticide regulations
  • Ecological risk assessment processes

 

Pesticide Toxicology, Evaluating Safety and Risk (PDF)

  • Pesticide and animals: interactions and effects
  • Animal testing
  • Pesticide testing

 

US EPA: Integrated Risk Information System

  • Database of human health effects that may result from exposure to various substances found in the environment

 

National Pesticide Impact Assessment Program

 

Pesticides and Water Quality: Principles, Policies, and Programs (PDF)

  • Fate of pesticides in the environment
  • Risk assessment of pesticides for water quality concerns

 

Pesticides and Epidemiology: Unraveling Disease Patterns (PDF)

  • Principles of epidemiology
  • Placing epidemiological studies in perspective

Other States PUR Information

 

New York State Pesticide Sales and Use Reporting (PSUR)

  • New York State pesticide sales and use reports

 

Pesticide Action Network (PAN): PUR systems outside of California

  • US pesticide use estimates
  • California, New York and Oregon pesticide use reporting data

 

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