CALIFORNIA QAL LAWS COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Allowed Early Entry task - ✔✔-Task permitted to perform during an REI; employees
must be trained on early entry
Employers must:
• Train the employee as a feldworker or handler;
• Provide the additional training information
specifed below; and
• Follow the PPE and decontamination
requirements below.
✔✔Field Posting Requirements - ✔✔-Required by the pesticide product labeling;
-The application is in an entirely enclosed space
(such as an enclosed greenhouse);
-The application is to a partially enclosed space
(such as an open-ended hoophouse) where the
REI is greater than 4 hours; or
-The REI is greater than 48 hours for outdoor
applications.
✔✔Pesticide Residue - ✔✔Pesticide residue is the remnant of a pesticide
that can be found on a crop or commodity after
application.
✔✔Pesticide residue may result from: - ✔✔-Direct application;
• Off-site movement such as drift, volatilization,
wind-blown pesticide dusts and pesticide
residues on soil particles, and runoff from
irrigation or rainwater;
• Uptake from soil; and
• Other environmental sources.
, ✔✔Who sample Pesticide residue on crop? - ✔✔DPR, the United States Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), and the County
Agricultural Commissioners (CACs) collect
samples of various produce commodities for
pesticide residue analyses.
✔✔Pesticide Residue Tolerance on Crops - ✔✔-Each tolerance is the highest residue
level of a particular
pesticide that is legally allowed on a particular
commodity.
-purpose of tolerances is to ensure that consumers are not exposed to unsafe levels of
pesticide residues in food.
-The best way to avoid pesticide residue
problems is to read and carefully follow the
pesticide labeling instructions and follow any
laws or regulations
-Laws and regulations do not justify or permit
pesticide residue on produce unless a tolerance
has been established for that specifc pesticide
and produce combination.
✔✔Pesticide Residues are measured in Parts Per Million (PPM) - ✔✔One ppm means
that there is one part of a
chemical for every million parts of a commodity.
✔✔Illegal Residues - ✔✔-Residues above the tolerance level. Penalties for this for the
grower, packer, and shipper
✔✔Endangered Species Act of 1973 - ✔✔-provide protections for endangered and
threatened plant and animal species
-this act is designed to conserve the eco-
systems upon which these listed species depend
✔✔U.S. EPA Responsibilities (Endangered Species Act) - ✔✔-to mitigate adverse
impacts to endangered species, their
habitats, or their prey from otherwise legal
pesticide uses.
✔✔Groundwater Protection - ✔✔-monitoring and testing have found
that normal use of certain pesticide
products have resulted in groundwater
contamination
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Allowed Early Entry task - ✔✔-Task permitted to perform during an REI; employees
must be trained on early entry
Employers must:
• Train the employee as a feldworker or handler;
• Provide the additional training information
specifed below; and
• Follow the PPE and decontamination
requirements below.
✔✔Field Posting Requirements - ✔✔-Required by the pesticide product labeling;
-The application is in an entirely enclosed space
(such as an enclosed greenhouse);
-The application is to a partially enclosed space
(such as an open-ended hoophouse) where the
REI is greater than 4 hours; or
-The REI is greater than 48 hours for outdoor
applications.
✔✔Pesticide Residue - ✔✔Pesticide residue is the remnant of a pesticide
that can be found on a crop or commodity after
application.
✔✔Pesticide residue may result from: - ✔✔-Direct application;
• Off-site movement such as drift, volatilization,
wind-blown pesticide dusts and pesticide
residues on soil particles, and runoff from
irrigation or rainwater;
• Uptake from soil; and
• Other environmental sources.
, ✔✔Who sample Pesticide residue on crop? - ✔✔DPR, the United States Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), and the County
Agricultural Commissioners (CACs) collect
samples of various produce commodities for
pesticide residue analyses.
✔✔Pesticide Residue Tolerance on Crops - ✔✔-Each tolerance is the highest residue
level of a particular
pesticide that is legally allowed on a particular
commodity.
-purpose of tolerances is to ensure that consumers are not exposed to unsafe levels of
pesticide residues in food.
-The best way to avoid pesticide residue
problems is to read and carefully follow the
pesticide labeling instructions and follow any
laws or regulations
-Laws and regulations do not justify or permit
pesticide residue on produce unless a tolerance
has been established for that specifc pesticide
and produce combination.
✔✔Pesticide Residues are measured in Parts Per Million (PPM) - ✔✔One ppm means
that there is one part of a
chemical for every million parts of a commodity.
✔✔Illegal Residues - ✔✔-Residues above the tolerance level. Penalties for this for the
grower, packer, and shipper
✔✔Endangered Species Act of 1973 - ✔✔-provide protections for endangered and
threatened plant and animal species
-this act is designed to conserve the eco-
systems upon which these listed species depend
✔✔U.S. EPA Responsibilities (Endangered Species Act) - ✔✔-to mitigate adverse
impacts to endangered species, their
habitats, or their prey from otherwise legal
pesticide uses.
✔✔Groundwater Protection - ✔✔-monitoring and testing have found
that normal use of certain pesticide
products have resulted in groundwater
contamination
