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Safe Agricultural Pesticides

Safe Agricultural Pesticides. By: Mia Ortega And Erica Winfield. Outline. What are Pesticides?. The EPA defines pesticides as “any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest.”

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Safe Agricultural Pesticides

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  1. Safe Agricultural Pesticides By: Mia Ortega And Erica Winfield

  2. Outline

  3. What are Pesticides? • The EPA defines pesticides as “any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest.” • A pesticide may be a chemical substance or biological agent. • A biological agent is like a virus or bacteria. • It is used against pests including insects, plant pathogens, weeds,birds, mammals, fish, and nematodes(roundworms). • Pesticides are usually poisonous to humans.

  4. What is Environmentally Safe? • Environmentally safe means using the right pest control products. • There are thousands of safe pests control products in the world, but sometimes they are advertised or do not work. • The majority of these products are not safe. • Some safe pest control are organic, humane trapping, all natural and glue traps. • Pest control is sometimes used in aerosol cans, which is harmful to the environment.

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