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Haphazard Pesticide Enforcement Puts Farmworkers in California at Risk

In California’s Sacramento Valley, a grower was cited for multiple pesticide safety violations in a stone fruit orchard.  In the sweeping farmlands near the Central Coast, a seed supplier that cultivates peppers, vegetables and fruit was hit with more than two dozen pesticide safety violations, some of them serious offenses that caused health or environmental hazards. And in the San Joaquin Valley, an agricultural retailer with a history of pesticide safety violations was cited…

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