Pesticide Safety and Education
Stephen Ward
Featured Resources
Pesticide Drift Management
Illustrated tips for reducing the risk of wind, thermal, and inversion drift of pesticide materials.
Get to Know the Pesticide Label
Explains how to understand a pesticide label. Discusses the difference between brand name and active ingredient and how to know whether a specific use is legal for a specific pesticide.Latest Resources
Tree School Clackamas teaches love for the land
Educational event draws hundreds from woodland community in Clackamas County and beyond.
Glyphosate questions & answers
Kaci Buhl (OSU Statewide Pesticide Safety Education) and Chip Bubl (OSU Extension Horticulture/General Agriculture) collaborated to develop a list of questions and answers that might be helpful, related to glyphosate-related questions.
National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC)
NPIC provides objective, science-based information about pesticides and related topics. We help people across the nation make informed decisions.Oregon State University has competed successfully to run this project for over 20 years. The assembled expertise and collaborations run deep. Reach out to us with your questions and needs! NPIC is a cooperative agreement between Oregon State University and the U.S. EPA.
Send your question by email to npic@ace.orst.edu.
... or call us!
1-800-858-7378
Monday - Friday
8:00 am - 12:00 pm Pacific Time
The objectives of NPIC are:
- To serve as a factual source of information for diverse professional and public audiences on pesticide-related issues;
- To operate a toll-free, bi-lingual telephone information service for all callers in the United States and its territories, Monday through Friday at least 4 hours per day, with accessibility to voicemail during closed hours, and ability to address inquiries through e-mail and social media;
- To develop and maintain English and Spanish websites accessible to broad audiences and host NPIC original content, state-of-the-art information technology tools and links to unbiased and authoritative sources of information about pesticides;
- To collect robust pesticide incident data through systematic protocols and to disseminate the information through scheduled reporting and by request from U.S. EPA and partner agencies;
- To conduct our service professionally, with an emphasis on teamwork, integrity and accountability, and a strong commitment to collaboration and exceptional customer service.
Latest News
OSU’s wristband samplers detect environmental chemicals in aftermath of Harvey’s flooding
Sep 25, 2017
The simple detectors mimic human cells to pick up more than a thousand chemicals
NPIC helps raise toxic awareness during National Poison Prevention Week
Mar 20, 2017
OSU-based center only one of its kind in the country
Protecting bees from pesticides: Now there’s an app for that
Apr 8, 2016
Farmers and beekeepers can now look up pesticide tables on their smartphones
