WHY DO IPM?

Self-Guided Module

Introduction to IPMLesson 2 of 4

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Learning Objectives

1. Identify health, environmental, and economic risks of pests associated with buildings and grounds.

2. Identify health, environmental, and economic risks of pesticides associated with buildings and grounds.

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Health risks Environmental

risks Economic

risks

Pest-Related Risks

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□ Exposure to some pest allergens can trigger asthma. Asthma sufferers may be sensitive to dust mites, cockroaches and/or rodent allergens.

□ Cockroaches, filth flies and rodents can contaminate food which can cause food poisoning and upset stomachs.

□ Rats bite more than 45,000 people annually in the US, most are infants, children and the sick.

13. Pest-Related Health Risks

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□ Ticks are the primary cause of Lyme disease.

□ Mosquito vectors can cause flu-like symptoms or more severe symptoms such as brain inflammation. The most common example is West Nile Virus.

Pest-Related Health Risks

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Pest-Related Health Risks

□ Stinging and venomous arthropods commonly occur in most environments.

□ Between 0.5 - 4% of the US population are prone to developing an allergy and therefore a potentially deadly hypersensitivity reaction to bee, wasp, hornet or ant stings.

□ Venomous arthropods include scorpions and spiders.

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Pest-Related Economic Risks

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Pesticide Related Risks

Health risks Environmental

risks Economic

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Harmful Health Effects from Pesticides

Pesticide exposure may cause harmful effects classified as acute, chronic or delayed effects. Acute effects more often result because

of a single exposure. Effects develop within 24 hours.

Chronic effects occur after many low-dose exposures over time.

Delayed effects may develop more than 24 hours later, sometimes as a result of multiple exposures.

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Acute Effects

Headache Fatigue Nausea Diarrhea Convulsions Inability to breathe Unconsciousness.

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Chronic Effects

Birth defects Tumor

development Genetic changes Blood disorders Nerve disorders Reproductive

effects Developmental

disorders

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Delayed Effects

Memory loss

Tumors Cancer

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Children Are Particularly Vulnerable

Children: Process toxicants differently. Pass through critical

developmental stages. Have a more rapid metabolic rate. More hand to mouth behavior,

greater contact with floors, walls, ground and other treated surfaces.

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50%of lifetime pesticide

exposure occurs in the first five years of life.

Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children

The National Academy of Sciences 1993 Landmark Report estimates that

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In relation to body weight, infants and children eat and drink more than adults, increasing potential exposure to pesticides in food and water.

Pesticide-Related Health Risks

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Certain behaviors, such as playing on floors or lawns or putting objects in mouths, increase a child's exposure to pesticides used in and around buildings and in the landscape.

Pesticide-Related Health Risks

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Pesticides can negatively affect: Pollinators (insects that pollinate

flowers and crops). Beneficial arthropods (insects and

spiders that play an important part in reducing pest species).

Non-target plants and animals.

Pesticide-Related Environmental Risks

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Some pesticides persist in the environment for years or leak into streams, rivers, lakes and ground water.

Over-use of pesticides may lead to pests developing resistance to the products. When this happens the pesticide eventually becomes completely useless.

Pesticide-Related Environmental Risks

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Can increase costs. Similarly, emergency repairs due to

lack of preventive maintenance commonly cost more.

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Pesticide-Related Economic Risks

Many household products are pesticides. All of these common products are considered pesticides:Cockroach sprays and baits, mosquito repellent, rodent poisons, flea and tick collars, kitchen and bathroom disinfectants and sanitizers, products that kill mold and mildew, weed killers and even some swimming pool chemicals.

Pesticide Safety

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Are some pesticides safer than others? The EPA Conventional Reduced

Risk Pesticide Program accelerates the review and regulatory decision-making process for conventional pesticides that pose less risk to human health and the environment than existing conventional alternatives.

The goal is to quickly register commercially viable alternatives to riskier conventional pesticides.

Pesticide Safety - Reduced Risk Pesticides

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Reduced risk pesticides have characteristics such as very low toxicity to humans and non-target organisms (including fish and birds), low risk of groundwater contamination or runoff, low potential for pesticide resistance and compatibility with IPM.

The “reduced-risk” designation applies only to certain uses of a particular pesticide and may not include all legal uses for that product.

Pesticide Safety – Non-conventional Pesticides

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Minimum-risk pesticides are products that are exempt from EPA registration under Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and have no EPA registration number. These pesticides may only contain ingredients from a limited list generally recognized as safe.

Biopesticides are pesticides derived from natural materials such as animals, plants, bacteria and certain minerals. Biopesticides must be registered with EPA.

Pesticide Safety

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State Regulations Vary By States

Some states require: Physical posting of school areas

treated with pesticides. Parent notification

regarding pesticide applications and allowable school pesticides.

States may mandate IPM education to be included in the student curriculum.

A school district IPM policy.

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School District IPM Policy

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School IPM policies may include: Who can apply pesticides. When and where they can be applied. A list of allowable pesticide products. Treated area posting details. Pesticide application record keeping. IPM coordinator contact information. Establishing a registry of students and

staff who are chemically sensitive.

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Pest-Related Liability Risks

School boards risk litigation if the best and most current information is not used when making pest management decisions.

Schools have only one sensible choice,

to practice IPM.

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Check In!

In this lesson you learned:

1. How to identify health, environmental, and economic risks of pests associated with buildings and grounds.

2. How to identify health, environmental, and economic risks of pesticides associated with buildings and grounds.

Next you will learn who does IPM!

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Resources

Cornell University. (2012). Pesticide Safety Education Program, Module 9. Retrieved from http://psep.cce.cornell.edu/Tutorials/core-tutorial/module09/index.aspx

Hollingsworth, C.S., Coli, W. M., Murray, K. D., & Ferro, D. N. (Eds.). (2002). Integrated Pest Management for Northeast Schools. Ithaca: Natural Resource, Agriculture, and Engineering Service Cooperative Extension. Retrieved from http://www.umass.edu/umext/schoolipm/for_viewing_only_ipmns.pdf

Maine Department of Agriculture, University of Maine Cooperative Extension. (2002). Outdoor Integrated Pest Management for Maine schools. Retrieved from http://www.maine.gov/agriculture/pesticides/schoolipm/pdf/outdooripm.pdf

Michael C.R. Alavanja , Jane A. Hoppin and Freya Kamel. (2004). Health Effects of Chronic Pesticide Exposure: Cancer and Neurotoxicity*3 Annual Review of Public Health. Vol. 25: 155-197. Retrieved from http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.publhealth.25.101802.123020

United States Environmental Protection Agency. (2012). The Conventional Reduced Risk Pesticide Program, About Pesticides, Pesticide Product Labels, Reducing Pesticide Risk. Retrieved from http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/glossary/r-z.html

United States Environmental Protection Agency. (2012). Protecting Children’s Health, The National Pesticide Program. Retrieved from http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/health/protecting-children.pdf

Walter A. Alarcon, Geoffrey M. Calvert and Jerome M. Blondell. (2005). Acute Illness Associated with Pesticide Exposure at Schools. Journal of American Medical Association. Retrieved from http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=201292