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EPA announces plan to require disclosure of secret pesticide ingredients http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1261581005
Reversing a decade-old decision, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it plans to require pesticide manufacturers to disclose to the public the inert ingredients in their products.
An inert ingredient is anything added to a pesticide that does not kill or control a pest.
In some cases, those ingredients are toxic compounds, but companies do not identify them on pesticide labels.
Nearly 4,000 inerts - including several hundred that are considered hazardous under other federal rules - are used in agricultural and residential pesticides.
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