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“The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a partner with state governments in the regulation of pesticides. State agencies have primary responsibility for regulating the use of pesticides. The EPA New England Office maintains an oversight role for these cooperative agreements, but the primary authority for most compliance and enforcement actions regarding the use of pesticides rests with the states themselves. ... The EPA is very serious about people not being responsible about pesticides and not doing their jobs correctly. ... Environmental Protection Agencys New England office announced that there are two Rhode Island companies that are not following the rules and regulations, these companies make swimming pool disinfectants, for distributing pesticides with labels that misrepresented the contents. ...
These products are regulated as pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act – or FIFRA – the FIFRA will prevent or destroy pests, such as algae, viruses and bacteria. Under FIFRA, regulated pesticides must be registered with EPA before they are sold or distributed, and the claims made on the products labels about the product must be accurate just like anything else that is sold in the stores.
Approximate Word count = 849
Approximate Pages = 3.4
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