Pesticide Recordkeeping - Benefits & Requirements

BENEFITS Determine carryover injury. If your fields exhibit RECORDKEEPING REQUIREMENTS pesticide carryover injury, records will help evaluate Exemption from pesticide contamination liability. the situation. The following information must be recorded for each As provided by section 487.081(6), Florida Statutes, application of a restricted use pesticide: if you keep records of all your pesticide use (general Document your legal use of pesticides. Records are and restricted use products), and you have used your best defense if you are accused of an improper  Name and license number of licensed applicator pesticides legally, you may be exempt from application that causes drift, personal injury, or other  Name of person who applied the pesticide (may proceedings by the Florida Department of problems. be an unlicensed assistant) Environmental Protection to recover costs associated  Date, start time, and end time of treatment with damages, assessment, evaluation, or remediation Provide necessary information in a medical  Location of treatment site using one of the of pesticide - contaminated property. Records must be emergency. If an accident or pesticide exposure following methods: kept indefinitely. occurs, records may be necessary for medical 1. County, range, township and section personnel to give treatment. Evaluate effectiveness of controls. Use your 2. Maps and/or written descriptions that accurately identify the treatment location records to analyze your pest management Support studies that identify critical pesticide and distinguish it from other sites programs: what works and what doesn't. You can registrations. Through surveys, your records can 3. USDA identification system found in 7 compare pesticides with other control tactics. contribute data needed to preserve pesticide CFR 110 which uses maps and registrations. Resolve pesticide failures. If reduced pesticide numbering systems 4. Legal property description product performance occurs, having record will Provide accurate data to respond to public 5. Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) help you determine the cause such as pest concerns about pesticide use. Your records can be coordinates or longitude/latitude points resistance or use of the wrong application rate. added to national databases that will accurately show that delineate the treatment site pesticide use. Efforts to reduce pesticide use can be  Crop, commodity or target site treated Improve your ability to buy the right amount of documented in the information. pesticide. Records will help you buy the correct  Total size of area treated amount of pesticide the following year. You'll save Be prepared for requirements of lending  Brand name and EPA Registration Number of money and eliminate excess pesticide disposal institutions. Some lending institutions and buyers product applied problems. request field records to evaluate potential  Total amount of product applied environmental liability when making land sales or  Application method Provide buyers with required records of loans.  Name of person authorizing the treatment, if the pesticide use. Nurserymen must document certain application was made to property not owned or preventative applications before selling nursery Be in compliance with the law. The Florida Pesticide leased by the licensed applicator stock. Other buyers may also require a report on Law requires all licensed pesticide applicators to keep pesticides used on crops or other commodities records of restricted use pesticides applied. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS treated with pesticides.  The required pesticide application information Improve crop rotation decisions. With records, you must be recorded within 2 working days after know your crop rotation options. Some pesticides application. have restrictions on crops that can be planted within certain time frames after pesticide application.

 Records may be kept in any format that includes CONTACT all the required information and may be incorporated into other business records. For more information contact the FDACS Bureau of Licensing and Enforcement, 3125 Conner Blvd.,  It is not necessary to record repetitive Bldg. 8, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1650, telephone information that applies to all records, as long (850) 617-7870. Pesticide as the information is recorded one time and there is a written record that this information WEB SITE applies to other applications as well. Recordkeeping More information about Bureau pesticide programs

 Records must be kept for 2 years from and copies of various forms are available from the

application date and must be made available web site https://www.freshfromflorida.com/. to authorized FDACS representatives upon request. Benefits

 Commercial applicators must provide a copy of the application record to the person for whom the application was made within 30 and days of application.

 Pesticide application records and any Requirements

available label information must be provided to licensed health care professionals or their

designated agents in the event of a medical emergency or if the health care professional determines the information is necessary to Make wiser, more provide medical treatment to an individual who may have been exposed to a pesticide profitable decisions by included in the record information. keeping records of

VIOLATIONS your pesticide use.

Licensed applicators who violate any of the above requirements are subject to a fine imposed by Florida Department of Agriculture FDACS. Violators who are fined have the right to & Consumer Services respond to the charges or request a hearing. Division of Agricultural Environmental Services

FORMS January 2019 Nicole “Nikki” Fried, Commissioner Florida Department of Agriculture A Suggested Pesticide Recordkeeping Form for & Consumer Services Restricted Use Pesticides and WPS (Worker Protection Standard) is available from the FDACS Bureau of Licensing and Enforcement at https://www.freshfromflorida.com/.