PRINTER'S NO. 3174
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
759
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY CRUZ, YOUNGBLOOD, DONATUCCI, KINSEY, MURT,
DRISCOLL, NEILSON, THOMAS, DEAN, CALTAGIRONE, D. COSTA AND
BRADFORD, MARCH 15, 2018
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES, MARCH 15, 2018
A RESOLUTION
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a
study on pesticide exposure and poisoning, testing and
reporting and to issue a report.
WHEREAS, The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide
Act is the Federal statute governing the registration,
distribution, sale and use of pesticides throughout the United
States; and
WHEREAS, A pesticide is defined in the Pennsylvania Pesticide
Control Act of 1973 as "any substance or mixture of substances
intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating
any pest, and any substance or mixture of substances intended
for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant"; and
WHEREAS, Pesticides are widely used to control pests such as
insects, rodents, weeds, mold, fungi and bacteria; and
WHEREAS, Although utilized in and around buildings, homes,
forests, parks and schools, pesticides are also consistently
applied to crops by the agricultural industry; and
WHEREAS, Eighty percent of the 16,000 pesticide products that
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