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Dow takes issue with chlorpyrifos bill
Jul 26, 2017, 17:25 PM
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Dow AgroSciences takes issue with a bill introduced by five Democrats in the U.S. Senate to ban its pesticide chlorpyrifos. Dick Durbin of Illinois is one of the sponsors of the Protect Children, Farmers and Farmworkers from Nerve Agent Pesticides Act.
A statement provided to Brownfield Ag News from Dow:
Current regulatory safety standard for chlorpyrifos rests on five decades of experience in use, health surveillance of manufacturing workers and applicators, and more than 4,000 studies and reports examining the product in terms of health, safety and the environment.
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