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Have you been affected, or have you observed, a spray drift or an overspray event? First step: Call the EPA NSW Environment Line. Ensure to keep a note of the type of incident, location, date and time. Ideally, take videos and photos on your phone.

KEY RESOURcES

FIRST STEP: TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION - CALL EPA NSW ENVIRONMENT LINE

When you observe a spray drift incident:
  • make sure to take a note of the type of incident, location, date and time. Ideally, take videos and photos on your phone. 
  • In NSW, Australia, call the Environment Line to notify EPA NSW. 

'THE THREAT OF PESTICIDE SPRAY DRIFT - A COMMUNITY INFORMATION AND ACTION KIT'

By Jo Immig, National Toxics Network
See: https://ntn.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ntn_spraydrift.pdf 

PAN PESTICIDE DATABASE

See the newly updated easy-to-use PESTICIDE INFORMATION DATABASE by Pesticide Action Network North America at http://pesticideinfo.org.

'Australian Pesticides Map - Spray Drift events'

By Friends of the Earth.
​See https://pesticides.australianmap.net/category/spray-drift/

SIGN THE CONSENSUS STATEMENT

On 16 December 2020, the Commonwealth Government AgVet Panel released a draft report and recommendations on their review of the Australian Agricultural and Veterinary (AgVet) chemical regulatory system. 

Joining environmental health experts, independent scientists and other civil society organisations, the Community Overspray Groups (COGS) are signatories to the Consensus Statement dated 12 March 2021, which raises major concerns regarding the Panel report and recommendations.

For example, the Panel failed to utilise crucial scientific evidence, and the the independence of the Panel is questioned. If the recommendations were to be implemented, they would put health and safety in danger. It would be allowed to continue using unsafe AgVet chemicals that have long been banned in other countries.

The Consensus Statement then goes on to make recommendations about how the AgVet regulatory system should be reviewed and reformed.

Please read and sign the Consensus Statement on the National Toxics Network website.

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CONTACT
Stop Poisoning Us is an initiative of:
Community Overspray Groups NSW (COGS)
Mailing address: Suite 3377, 248 Beach Road, Bathaven NSW 2536, Australia
Email: stoppoisonplanes@gmail.com - mob: 0428 890 110

The COGS operate as non-profit community representatives to ensure the protection of community, landscapes and livelihoods in our rural areas. Our guiding principle is a Winston Churchill quotation: "Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is."
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