The maintenance department chose instead to contract with a licensed pest management firm to conduct all applications at local schools. In addition, once it had been decided that an outside vendor would be responsible for pest management at local schools, all pesticides were removed from the school department chemical inventory for disposal. The instructions and warnings on the pesticide label are commonly ignored . It is not unusual for inexperienced applicators to believe that if a little pesticide is good then more is better. What the applicators did not realize was that certain quantities or doses are safe and once you go above a specified level you can cause yourself harm.
Many people consider consumer use or household products to be non-toxic .
If I can buy this product at the local supermarket to use at home then it must be safe regardless of how I use it. Again, the dose makes the poison. Actual or threatened exposure to pesticides is a psychological trigger for many individuals . Whether real or imagined many people respond physically, mentally or emotionally to the report of possible exposure to pesticides. This manifestation may be good cause for seeking an alternative means for addressing a pest infestation as well as searching for the root cause of the problem.