They never apply pesticides during the day when any child might be exposed in any fashion. This runs contrary to long established principles of Integrated Pest Management. Thus, the banning of pesticides and the 72-hour notice only achieves the goal of making it just that much more difficult to actually protect the school against pest infestations from cockroaches, ants, spiders, mice, rats, et cetera. Then there is the way pesticides are applied by professionals. The short answer is very carefully .
Any actual exposure falls somewhere in between none and so minimal it can t even be measured.
So people need to ask why these Senators are doing this and the answer is probably that they ve cut a deal with some Green organizations who are donating to their campaign coffers or they are doing a deal with the EPA in exchange for some favor. It s about politics. It s not about protecting children. It is another way the just about everything the Greens propose ends up putting the lives of children and others at risk. Dr. Orkin is a professor of statistics at California State University, Hayward.