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operations without them. The fight goes back and forth with environmentalists apparently holding the winning edge as government controls are exercised over the use of more and more chemicals—and chemical users.
“The applicator certification program that we've been hearing so much about for the last few years is finally becoming a reality,” reported Harry Rust, representative from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Commerce at the February Fruit School. This program, he noted, grew out of action taken by the U.S. Congress in 1972 to amend Federal pesticide laws. At that time, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was given regulatory powers to classify pesticides into either general or restricted use categories. After October, 1977, Rust said, only a certified applicator could apply restricted chemicals—those that have been determined by EPA to pose a particular hazard to the applicator or to the environment.
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