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Date: June 20, 2003
Posted by: Lois Levitan. (lcl3@cornell.edu)

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EPA Pesticide Program Update
from EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs 06/19/03
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides


EPA LAUNCHES HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS PESTICIDE INITIATIVE AT NATIONAL FORUM

EPA, in partnership with the National Environmental Education and 
Training Foundation (NEETF) and in collaboration with the U.S. 
Departments of Health and Human Services, Agriculture, and Labor, 
launched the National Strategies for Health Care Providers: Pesticide 
Initiative at a National Forum held in Washington, D.C. on June 
10-11, 2003.

More than 100 leaders in medicine, nursing, and environmental health 
attended the Forum and have set a course of action to improve the 
recognition, management, and prevention of pesticide-related health 
conditions by health care providers in the United States.  Using the 
Initiative's Implementation Plan for guidance, participants 
identified strategies and specific action items to expand the 
emerging nationwide network of health care providers committed to 
incorporating environmental health into primary care education and 
practice.

Specifically, several individuals committed to seek national 
professional organizations' endorsements of the Initiative's 
companion document, National Pesticide Competency and Practice Skills 
Guidelines for Medical and Nursing Education and Practice. 
Additional action items included pursuing promotion of environmental 
health/pesticides messages for consumers in tandem with education of 
primary health care providers and creating educational opportunities 
through credentialing bodies and professional societies who influence 
providers' continuing education.  A conference report is planned for 
fall 2003.

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