. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. EPA — On the Wrong Track Again Proposed harvest entry times are highly restrictive, with no basis on scientific fact; yet they will affect virtually all growers unless we act quickly Any hope that the Environ- mental Protection Agency would come up with "reasonable" re-entry standards died March 11 with the pubhcation in the Federal Register of its proposed health and safety standards. EPA has outdistanced Occupational Safety and Heahh Administration's highly contro- versial proposed re-entry standards by extending its re
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. EPA — On the Wrong Track Again Proposed harvest entry times are highly restrictive, with no basis on scientific fact; yet they will affect virtually all growers unless we act quickly Any hope that the Environ- mental Protection Agency would come up with "reasonable" re-entry standards died March 11 with the pubhcation in the Federal Register of its proposed health and safety standards. EPA has outdistanced Occupational Safety and Heahh Administration's highly contro- versial proposed re-entry standards by extending its regulations to all pesticides applied, and on a wide variety of crops, imposing re-entry times for certain chemicals of up to 45 days! No worker will be allowed to enter a field treated with a pesticide for 12 hours after application unless wearing protective clothing. For 13 specified pesticides (see chart), no one may re-enter without protective clothing for 48 hours. And if a worker will have foliar contact (described as harvesting, fruit thinning, summer pruning, propping, placement of irrigation pipe) for more than one-half hour per day, protective clothing must be worn for the full harvest interval designated in the chart. "These regulations are ridicu- lous, they appear to be just another form of harassment," a represent- ative of a leading fruit and vegetable organization told American Vegetable Grower. An- other commented, "They were drafted by lawyers who pulled numbers out of thin ; The harvest entry times do have a scientific basis but not for the purpose for which EPA is using them. They are, in fact, the pre- harvest intervals or the time be- tween application of a pesticide on a food crop and harvest needed to achieve acceptable tolerance resi- dues. "The harvest entry times are entirely too long," Dr. Montelaro, University of Florida horticulturist told AVG (American Vegetable Grower), "and they don't take into account clim
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