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Toxins and Pollutants | Pesticides

A pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest. Though often misunderstood to refer only to insecticides, the term pesticide also applies to herbicides, fungicides, and various other substances used to control pests.

By their very nature, most pesticides create some risk of harm - Pesticides can cause harm to humans, animals, or the environment because they are designed to kill or otherwise adversely affect living organisms. When farmers and growers use illegally high levels of pesticides, residents can get hurt. The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act of 1947 controls the sale, distribution and application of pesticides.

Protecting public health goes beyond the general mandate to ensure the required safety of pesticides sold on the market for pest control. The Food Quality Protection Act placed requirements on EPA related to public health pesticides. Federal law requires registrants of pesticides to inform EPA about harmful effects of their products. These effects include, for example, unexpected levels of toxicity observed in test animals or incidents such as death or hospitalization of a person. If you or someone you know has been harmed by exposure to a pesticide, you may have a case against the manufacturer, purveyor or user of the product