DPR’s strict oversight begins with pesticide product evaluation and registration and continues through statewide licensing of commercial applicators, dealers, consultants, and other pesticide professionals; evaluation of health impacts of pesticides through illness surveillance and risk assessment; environmental monitoring of air, water, and soil; field enforcement (with the county agricultural commissioners) of laws regulating pesticide use; residue testing of fresh produce; and encouraging development and adoption of least-toxic pest management practices through incentives and grants.
The state’s pesticide regulatory program has had departmental status since 1991, as the Department of Pesticide Regulation, within the California Environmental Protection Agency. But the pesticide program had its beginnings in the early 1920s as a function of the California Department of Agriculture (later to be called the Department of Food and Agriculture).
California’s Food and Agricultural Code authorizes the state’s pesticide regulatory program and mandates it to: • Provide for the proper, safe, and efficient use of pesticides essential for production of food and fiber and for protection of public health and safety. • Protect the environment from environmentally harmful pesticides by prohibiting, regulating, or ensuring proper stewardship of those pesticides. • Assure agricultural and pest control workers of safe working conditions where pesticides are present. • Authorize agricultural pest control by competent and responsible licensees and permittees under strict control of DPR and the county agricultural commissioners. • Assure consumers and users that pesticides are properly labeled and appropriate for the use designated by the label and that state or local governmental dissemination of information on pesticidal uses of any registered pesticide product is consistent with the uses for which the product is registered. • Encourage the development and implementation of pest management systems, stressing application of biological and cultural pest control techniques with selective pesticides when necessary to achieve acceptable levels of control with the least possible harm to public health, nontarget organisms, and the environment.
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