Aerial Applicator Fined For Pesticide Drift

A Mississippi company has agreed to pay a $4,082 civil penalty to the United States for an August 2009 incident in which a liquid pesticide that it sprayed over an Iowa corn field drifted to an adjacent public use trail, and resulted in exposure of trail users to the chemical.

An investigation by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship confirmed that samples of vegetation taken along the trail adjacent to the field were contaminated with residue of a fungicide. The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) prohibits the aerial application of registered pesticides in ways that will result in human contact, either directly or through drifting.

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