New Pesticide Recordkeeping Laws:

In an effort to comply with the recommendations of the 2008 Governor’s Task Force on Preventing Agricultural Pesticide Exposure and to implement the requirements of Senate Bill 847: “Prevent Agricultural Pesticide Exposure” The North Carolina Pesticide Board has adopted changes to the application information that is required under the Federal Worker Protection Standard, as well as requirements for Commerical Applicators & Public Operators. The changes will now require growers making applications that fall under the scope of the Worker Protection Standard to add the actual “end time” of application to the records. This is in addition to the “time of the application” that is required to be posted before the application takes place under the current WPS Regulations. Also each day of applications shall be recorded as a separate application record.

The application information must also now be maintained for a period of two years, this coincides with the USDA Requirements for Restricted-Use Pesticides. So to comply with the regulations growers must keep the information posted at a central location for 30 days after the re-entry period expires (if workers are present on their establishment) and then maintain the records for a period of two years to allow for inspection by Pesticide Inspectors with NCDA&CS.