What are the responsibilities when using a listed pesticide?
Twelve months after a chemical, such as a pesticide, is added to the Proposition 65 chemical list, businesses with ten or more employees must provide a warning before knowingly and intentionally exposing their employees or the public to an amount of the listed pesticide that poses a significant risk. The warning must be “clear and reasonable.” Also, 20 months after a pesticide is listed, businesses must not knowingly discharge listed pesticides, in a concentration that poses a significant risk, into drinking water or onto land where it will pass or probably will pass into a source of drinking water.
