Edna's Post, County Agents, and Using Natural Products
Charles Benbrook (benbrook@hillnet.com)
Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:35:35 -0800
Edna -- Your county agent was wrong. Federal pesticide law, FIFRA,
prohibits a company from selling/labelling a product for pest control
purposes -- i.e. a product whose packaging makes any pesticidal claim --
unless the product is first registered by the EPA. It is not a crime, nor
any business of the EPA, if a master gardener or a beginning gardener were
to cook up at home any number of natural controls. Soaps, baking soda,
gasoline, cyanide, ground up mealy bugs -- whatever -- if the chemical or
ingredient does not come in a containiner that makes pesticidal claims, the
EPA has not jurisdiction over what individuals do in the privacy of their
own gardens. So do not let them use that excuse.
chuck
Charles Benbrook 208-263-5236 (voice)
Benbrook Consulting Services 208-263-7342 (fax)
5085 Upper Pack River Road benbrook@hillnet.com [e-mail]
Sandpoint, Idaho 83864 http://www.pmac.net
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