40 C.F.R. § 170.1
Scope and purpose
This part contains a standard designed to reduce the risks of illness or injury resulting from workers' and handlers' occupational exposures to pesticides used in the production of agricultural plants on farms or in nurseries, greenhouses, and forests and also from the accidental exposure of workers and other persons to such pesticides. It requires workplace practices designed to reduce or eliminate exposure to pesticides and establishes procedures for responding to exposure-related emergencies.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1975–2009 · leading case: Martex Farms, S.E. v. United States Env't Prot. Agency, 559 F.3d 29 (1st Cir. 2009).
Martex Farms, S.E. v. United States Env't Prot. Agency, 559 F.3d 29 (1st Cir. 2009). “See 40 C.F.R. § 170.1 . Any failure to comply with the WPS when using a pesticide is a violation of FIFRA.”
Organized Migrants in Cmty. Action, Inc., Elizabeth Wilder v. Peter Brennan, Sec'y, Dep't of Labor, 520 F.2d 1161 (D.C. Cir. 1975). “The regulations promulgated by EPA to protect farmworkers from toxic exposure to pesticides are found at 40 C.F.R. § 170.1 et seq. (1974). 9 . Appellants’ interpretation of Fineberg Packing Co.”
West Virginia Mfrs. Ass'n v. West Virginia, 714 F.2d 308 (4th Cir. 1983). “However, these more extensively regulated substances, some twenty in number, are not included on the Commissioner’s list and therefore are not regulated by W.”
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