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Next Meeting

December 17, 2009 
9:30 am to 12:30 pm

Draft 2010 PIRT Meeting Schedule (PDF)

November 19, 2009 - Tukwila
Agenda (PDF)

October 15, 2009 - Tumwater
Meeting canceled - a quorum could not be met.

September 17, 2009 - Tukwila
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Contributing Factors in Pesticide-Related Illness in Agricultural Workers, WA, 2003-2008 (PDF 226KB) - Barbara Morrissey, Washington State Department of Health

  • Supplemental Handout to Barbara Morrissey Presentation (PDF 64KB)

• Letter from DNR Commissioner Peter Goldmark (PDF 33KB)

• Pesticide Program Dialog Committee Presentation (PDF 840KB) - Matthew Keifer

August 20, 2009 - Tumwater
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Letter to DNR Commissioner Peter Goldmark (PDF 56KB)

• Letter to WDFW Interim Director Phil Anderson (PDF 34KB)

• Letter to Governor Gregoire (PDF 45KB)

• Annual PIRT Report Schedule for Data Submission (PDF 27KB)

July 16, 2009 - Tumwater
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Overview of Meeting Laws and Procedures - Attorney General Memo (PDF 900KB)

• Letter from DOH Secretary Mary Selecky (PDF 47KB)

June 18, 2009 - Tukwila
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

May 21, 2009 - Tumwater
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Organophosphorus Pesticide Air Monitoring Project, Preliminary Results (PDF 256KB) - Dr. Richard Fenske and Dr. Michael Yost, UW School of Public Health

• Assessing Impacts to Growers, Farm Labor, and Environmental Groups from Phase-Out of Azinphos Methyl (PDF 1.4MB) - Nadine Lehrer, Jay Brunner, Keith Granger, Wendy Jones

April 22, 2009 - Granger
Agenda / Español Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Organophosphorus Pesticide Air Monitoring Project: Preliminary Results (PDF 45KB) - University of Washington

• Overview of 2008 Air Monitoring Studies: Residential Air Monitoring  and Reduced Fumigant Emission Application Assessments (PDF 1.4MB) - Washington State University

• The Work to Home Pesticide Exposure Pathway "How to Protect Pregnant Women and Children (PDF 1.7MB) - Helen Murphy, University of Washington, Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center

• The Synergistic Toxicity of Pesticide Mixtures: Implications for Risk Assessment and the Conservation of Endangered Pacific Salmon - Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 117, Number 3, March 2009

March Follow-up Meeting Item

• PIRT Executive Summary (PDF 39KB)

• Letter for PIRT Executive Summary (PDF 64KB)

March 19, 2009 - Tukwila
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Letter to Representative Tom Campbell (PDF 349KB)

• Agenda topics for future meetings (PDF 23KB)

• WSDA Agricultural Land Use Geodatabase - For more information, contact Perry Beale at 360-902-2065

March 10, 2009 Special Meeting - Tumwater
No Agenda
Minutes (PDF)

February 19, 2009 - Tumwater
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Senate Bill 5889 - An Act Relating to flexibility in the education system (Word 22KB)

• Agenda topics for future meetings (PDF 23KB)

January 15, 2009 - Tukwila
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

January 5, 2009 Special Meeting - Tumwater
No Agenda
Minutes (PDF)

November 20, 2008 - Yakima
Agenda / Español Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Research on Long-Term Health Effects of Pesticides (PDF 1MB) - Anneclaire J. De Roos, University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

October 16, 2008 - Tukwila
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Letter to Representative Campbell (Word 95KB)

• Enclosure for Representative Campbell's letter - Department of Health Roadside Pesticide Incidents 2000-2006 Summary of Definite, Probable, and Possible Exposures and Department of Agriculture Roadside Pesticide Complaints, 2000-2007 Summary (PDF 74KB

• Draft Report Section for Washington State Department of Agriculture (PDF)

• Draft Report Section for Washington State Department of Ecology (PDF)

September 18, 2008 - Tumwater
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Letter to Jim Roelofs, US EPA, regarding residential human exposure incidents from the use of insecticide foggers and aerosols (PDF 78KB)

• Organic Diets Significantly Lower Children's Dietary Exposure to Organophosphorus Pesticides (PDF 119KB) - Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 114, Number 2, February 2006

• EPA Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for Methyldithiocarbamate Salts - Metam Sodium/Potassium and MITC (PDF 1.8MB) - Dr. Vincent Hebert, Washington State University

• Expedited Process Proposal (PDF 368KB)

August 7, 2008 Special Meeting - Tumwater
No Agenda
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Toxicologist candidate recommendations (Word 32KB)

July 17, 2008 - Tukwila
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Ag Pilot Project - Pest Management Transition Project (PDF 748KB) - Jay Brunner, WSU Tree Fruit Research & Extension Center and Jim McFerson, Tree Fruit Research Commission

• An Overview of SENSOR-Pesticides (PDF 138KB) - Geoffrey M. Calvert, MD, MPH, FACP Senior Medical Officer, NIOSH/CDC

July 15, 2008 Special Meeting - Tumwater
No Agenda
Minutes (PDF)

June 19, 2008 - Tumwater
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Letter from Representative Tom Campbell (PDF)

• Draft 2007 PIRT Report Chapters: Executive Summary, Introduction, Labor and Industries (PDF)

May 15, 2008 - Tukwila
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• PIRT Action Item: Identifying Problem Pesticide Labels (PDF 28KB) - Barbara Morrissey, Department of Health and Ann Wick, Department of Agriculture

April 24, 2008 - Yakima
Agenda / Español Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Recognized Long Term Effects of Pesticide Exposure on Human Health: A review of Recent Literature (PDF 394KB) - Matthew Keifer MD MPH & Helen Murphy, FNP-NHS, University of Washington

• Residential and Near-field fumigant Air Monitoring:  Summary of 2007 Results (PDF 1.6MB) - Dr. Vincent Hebert, Washington State University

• Achievements and Results for Training Season FY 2008 (PDF 81KB) - Ofelio Borges, Washington State Department of Agriculture, Farmworker Education Program

• Benton County Mosquito Control District (PDF1.4MB) - Kevin Shoemaker, Assistant Manager, Benton County Mosquito Control

• Web pages: Department of Agriculture Farmworker Education and Department of Agriculture 2008 Pesticide Disposal Events

March 20, 2008 - Shoreline
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Draft Schedule for PIRT Report and Transmittal Letter (PDF 38KB)

February 21, 2008 - Tumwater
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Survey of Forestry & Rights of Way Compliance Issues, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (PDF) - Paul Figueroa, Investigator, Pesticide Compliance Program, Washington State Department of Agriculture

January 17, 2008 - Tukwila
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Pesticides in Schools (PDF 398KB) - Cliff Weed, Pesticide Management Division, Washington State Department of Agriculture

• Draft Letter to the Legislature relating to updates on activities and issues from the legislatively created Pesticide Incident Reporting an Tracking Review Panel (PDF 59KB)
• House Bill 2429, Establishing a work group to study the roadside application of pesticides.
• House Bill 1806, Limiting the use of high hazard pesticides on school facilities. Revised for 4th Substitute: Developing a model integrated pest management program.

• Washington State Department of Transportation - Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management

November 15, 2007 - Tumwater
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

October 18, 2007 - Shoreline
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Pesticide Mixtures, Endocrine Disruption, and Amphibian Declines: Are We Underestimating the Impact? - Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 114, Number S-1, April 2006

• Reducing Pesticide Exposure at School - NIOSH Fact Sheet (PDF)
• Map of Estimated Agricultural Use of Atrazine (GIF Image)
• 1989 Engrossed House Bill 2222 (Word)
• Letter from Representative Campbell (PDF)

September 20, 2007 - Tumwater
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Letter from Judy Schurke, Director, Labor and Industries (PDF)

• 2006 PIRT Letterhead Final (Word)
• Draft Guidelines for Recording Meeting Minutes (Word)
• RCW 70.104.070 Pesticide incident reporting and tracking review panel - Intent
• RCW 70.104.080 Pesticide panel - Generally
• RCW 70.104.090 Pesticide panel - Responsibilities
• A Human-Health Risk Assessment for West Nile Virus and Insecticides Used in Mosquito Management - Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 114, Number 3, March 2006
• An Ecological Risk Assessment of Insecticides Used in Adult Mosquito Management - Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Volume 3, Issue 3, July 2007
• Human Exposure to Mosquito-Control Pesticides - MMWR, June 3, 2005

August 9, 2007 - Tumwater
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Public Panel Member Announcement (Word)

• Toxicologist Panel Member Announcement (Word)

July 19, 2007 - Shoreline
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Lessons Learned From the Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study - American Journal of Public Health, March 2007, Vol. 97, No. 3

June 21, 2007 - Tumwater
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Testing Pesticides in Humans of Mice and Men Divided by Ten (PDF 56KB) - JAMA, June 2007

May 17, 2007 - Shoreline
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

April 19, 2007 - Yakima
Agenda / Español Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• Surface Water Monitoring for Pesticides (PDF) - Jim Cowles, Environmental Toxicologist, Washington State Department of Agriculture

• Implementing OP-alternative pest management programs in Washington apple (PDF) - Jay Brunner, WSU Tree Fruit Research & Extension Center

• Cholinesterase (ChE) Monitoring WAC 296-307-148 (PDF) - John Furman, Washington State Department of Labor and Industries

• Pesticide Drift Checklist (PDF) - Barbara Morrissey, Toxicologist, Washington State Department of Health

• What Is Azinphos-methyl?  English / Español (Word)
• Un Nuevo Trabajo para Jorge (PDF) - Spanish language information on cholinesterase monitoring

March 15, 2007 - Shoreline
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

February 15, 2007 - Tumwater
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)

Materials

• The Food and Environmental Laboratory (FEQL) legislative mandate (PDF) - Dr. Vincent Hebert, MITC Residential Community Air Assessment, WSU Food and Environmental Quality Laboratory

• California's Regulatory Program for Pesticides in Air (PDF) - Randy Segawa, California Department of Pesticide Regulation

• Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure and Neurodevelopment in Young Mexican-American Children (PDF) - Environmental Health Perspectives, January 2007

Drift-Related Materials

• Community Air Monitoring for Chlorpyrifos in the Northern Yakima Valley (PDF) - Carol Dansereau, Farm Worker Pesticide Project

• Community Exposures to Airborne Agricultural Pesticides in California: Ranking of Inhalation Risks (PDF) - Environmental Health Perspectives, December 2002

• Community Air Monitoring for Chlorpyrifos in the Northern Yakima Valley (PDF) - Farm Worker Pesticide Project and the Pesticide Action Network North America, Poisons on the Wind, December 2006

• Spatial and temporal distribution of pesticide air concentrations in Canadian agricultural regions - Atmospheric Environment, 40 (2006) 4339-4351

• Letter to Rob Duff from Dow AgroSciences, Bryan L Stuart, Ph.D (PDF)

• Gregg Grunenfelder e-mail response to Poisons on the Wind report to Ms. Dansereau (PDF)

• Comments on Representations Relative to Chlorpyrifos in 'Poisons on the Wind' (Word) - Dow AgroSciences

• Drift Distances Vary (PDF) - Washington State Department of Agriculture

• Drift Studies (Word) - Steven Gilbert, Toxicologist

• MITC Residential Community Air Assessment; South Franklin County, Washington, Study Number FEQL-NG-0605 (PDF) - Dr. Vincent R. Hebert, WSU Food and Environmental Quality Laboratory

• Draft PIRT Drift Resolution on Drift (PDF)

• PIRT Pesticide Drift Data on Human Illness and Injury (PDF) - Barbara Morrissey, Washington State Department of Health

• Proximity to Schools (PDF) - Washington State Department of Agriculture

• Recent drift complaints around schools prompt WSDA review - Washington State Department of Agriculture, Pesticide Notes, July 2001

Bills and Other Legislative Information

• House Bill 1810, Creating a project to monitor pesticide drift and its impacts

• Letter to Representative Campbell from Gregg Grunenfelder re: HB 1810 (JPG)

• House Bill 1806, Limiting the use of high hazard pesticides on school facilities

• House Bill 1946, Establishing a pesticide use reporting system

January 18, 2007 - Tumwater
Agenda (PDF)
Minutes (PDF)