Retail Store Survey of Consumer-Use Indoor Pesticide Products, 2014
Rachelanne Vander Werf, Adriana Aldana, Jennifer Teerlink and Robert Budd
2015
Abstract
The Department of Pesticide Regulation’s (DPR) Surface Water Protection Program (SWPP) staff conducted a store survey in the Sacramento region to provide a snapshot accounting of pesticides currently available to the general public for indoor use. Unlike pesticide use by professional applicators, pesticide use by residential users is not reported or tracked. During a survey of 10 stores, 62 active ingredients (AIs) were identified in 194 products. These AIs were then grouped into high, intermediate, and low priorities based on number of available products and aquatic toxicity. Thirty-one of the 62 AIs are prioritized for developing and validating analytical methods in a wastewater matrix for future monitoring efforts.