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Pesticide Applicator Update: Choosing Suitable Personal Protective Equipment1
Thomas W. Dean2This publication is available only in PDF format. The following is a description of this publication.
Pesticide Applicator Update: Choosing Suitable Personal Protective Equipment
This Pesticide Applicator Update identifies and explains the practical use of finding EPA-developed code letters (A-H) for personal protective equipment (PPE) on a pesticide label. Although every pesticide label contains statements about PPE, some pesticide labels do not mention code letters.Whenever a pesticide label mentions an EPA-developed code letter for PPE, the code letter indicates the chemical resistance of material used to fabricate the PPE article.
These code letters can help a user choose suitable PPE for a particular product.To help make sense of their PPE codes, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has organized the codes in a chart.Their chart, with some clarifying comments, is included in the publication.
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Footnotes
1. This document is PI-28, one of a series of the Pesticide Information Office, Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, IFAS, University of Florida. For additional Information, contact the Pesticide Information Office, University of Florida, P. O. Box 110710, Gainesville, FL 32611-0710, (352) 392-4721. Published February 2003. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.2. Thomas W. Dean, Ph.D., assistant extension scientist, Pesticide Information Office, Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, Cooperative Extension Service, IFAS, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611.
The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other extension publications, contact your county Cooperative Extension service.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Larry Arrington, Dean.
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