Use of reduced-risk insecticides to control insects to safeguard environment
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Reduced-risk pesticides are newer classes of compounds that pose a lower health risk to humans and the environment. This new classification and registration process resulted when the EPA implemented the Reduced-Risk Pesticides Initiative in 1993 to provide incentives to encourage the development and registration of pesticides that present lower risks to public health and the environment, and to encourage the replacement of higher risk pesticides in the marketplace.
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