New Information on the Department of Pesticide Regulation’s Web Site

The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) recently established its California School Integrated Pest Management (IPM) list server to quickly send you new information about school IPM. The list server will be used to periodically update you on training opportunities, meetings, workshops, conferences, new IPM resources, and news items related to school IPM. To be added to the list server, please go to www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/dept/listserv/sub1113.htm and follow the instructions.

You may be interested in the new information that DPR’s California School IPM program added to its Web site at https://apps.cdpr.ca.gov/schoolipm/.

• To see our updated overview of the California School IPM program, please go to https://apps.cdpr.ca.gov/schoolipm//overview/18_Sch_IPM.pdf.
• You have raised many questions about how to implement the Healthy Schools Act, how schools notify parents and post information about pesticide use, what are use-reporting requirements, and how to set up an IPM program. Find the answer to these and other questions in the Frequently Asked Questions section at https://apps.cdpr.ca.gov/schoolipm/, scroll down to What’s New, and click on Now Available-Frequently Asked Questions.
• DPR and the University of California Statewide IPM Project (UCIPM) have teamed up to provide a service unlike any other on the Web: the School IPM Health and Environmental Impacts Lookup Resource (School IPM HELPR). School IPM HELPR allows users to look up UCIPM’s Pest Notes recommendations for managing a particular pest and then proceed to a page that summarizes environmental and health information for each management tactic mentioned. Users can view information on toxicology, exposure, available products, and regulatory status in a convenient tabular format. The link to the cockroach HELPR page can be found at https://apps.cdpr.ca.gov/schoolipm/, scroll down to What’s New, and click on Introducing School IPM HELPR- A cooperative project of DPR and UCIPM. Additional HELPR pages on other pests will be added in the next several weeks.

Thank you for helping make our schools safer for students, staff, and visitors. If you have any questions about DPR’s California School IPM Program, please contact Dr. Nita Davidson, of my staff, at (916) 324-4100 or school-ipm@cdpr.ca.gov.

Sincerely,