Captured: Third in a series about how pesticide regulators place industry profits above public health.
SALINAS, Calif.—Residents of farmworker communities and their allies packed into a Monterey County meeting room about 100 miles south of San Francisco last Thursday night with a message for state pesticide regulators: protect us from the cancer-causing fumigant 1,3-D.
California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation, or DPR, held the third of four hearings in Salinas, a major berry-growing region, to seek public comment on its proposed regulation of 1,3-dichloropropene, or 1,3-D, a fumigant used most intensively by strawberry growers…