Popular Links
Featured Links
- Community Guide to Recognizing and Reporting Pesticide Problems
- Complaints
- Compliance assistance for employers
- Decisions pending and opportunities for public participation
- Environmental Justice
- How to get a license or product registration
- Information for physicians
- School IPM
- Structural Pest Control Board
Reference Links
Consumer Fact Sheets
About pesticides
- How to read a pesticide label (PDF, 200 kb) (En Español PDF, 208 kb)
- How to report an illegal use of pesticides or other pesticide problems (PDF, 110 kb) (En Español PDF, 113 kb)
- What is a pesticide (PDF, 115 kb) (En Español PDF, 123 kb)
Safe pesticide use
- Keep Pests and Pesticides Out of Your Office (PDF, 389 kb) - published jointly by DPR and the California Department of Public Health
- Protect your family - use a repellent (DPR handout) (PDF, 138 kb) (En Español PDF, 76 kb)
- Protecting outdoor workers from mosquitoes (DPR handout) (PDF, 129 kb) (En Español PDF, 75 kb)
- Pesticide storage and disposal (PDF, 156 kb) (En Español PDF, 139 kb)
- Protecting children from pesticide exposure (PDF, 117 kb) (En Español PDF, 126 kb)
- Safety tips (PDF, 137 kb) (En Español PDF, 135 kb)
- Using insect foggers safely (PDF, 239 kb) (En Español PDF, 143 kb)
- What to do in a pesticide emergency (PDF, 130 kb) (En Español PDF, 139 kb)
Reducing pesticide use
- Don’t grow your own mosquitoes --a home and garden checklist (DPR handout) (PDF, 134 kb) ( En Español PDF, 90 kb)
- Lawn care tips (PDF, 104 kb) (En Español PDF, 110 kb)
- Preventing pest problems (PDF, 141 kb) (En Español PDF, 126 kb)
- Pesticides and Proposition 65 (HTML) (PDF, 128 kb)
- What to do about bugs, weeds, and other pests
About DPR and its programs
- A DPR overview (PDF, 90 kb) (En Español PDF, 99 kb)
- Assessing health risks of pesticides (PDF, 123 kb)
- County Agricultural Commissioners: duties and responsibilities (PDF, 131 kb) (En Español PDF, 136 kb)
- Dormant spray rules (PDF, 79 kb) (En Español PDF, 138 kb)
- Environmental monitoring (PDF, 124 kb) (En Español PDF, 128 kb)
- Food residue monitoring (PDF, 130 kb) (En Español PDF, 208 kb)
- Ground water protection (PDF, 98 kb)
- IPM Innovator awards (PDF, 157 kb)
- Preventing pesticide illness (PDF, 55 kb)
- The permit process for restricted pesticides (PDF, 95 kb)
- The rulemaking process: how you can get involved in regulatory decision making (PDF, 108 kb)
From the Structural Pest Control Board
- Fumigation (PDF, 250 kb)
- General Information A to Z (PDF, 222 kb)
- Household Pest Control (PDF, 253 kb)
- Home Termite Infestations (PDF, 249 kb)
- Structural Pest Control Inspections (PDF, 259 kb)
U.S. EPA publications
- Citizen’s Guide to Pest Control and Pesticide Safety (PDF, 4.2 Mb)
- Consumer products treated with pesticides
- Controlling bed bugs
- Don’t buy illegal pesticide products
- Mold control in homes, schools and commercial buildings
- Professional pest control - information from U.S. EPA’s National Pesticide Information Center on how to select a pest control company and related topics.
- Pets and Pesticide Use (PDF, 185 kb) (National Pesticide Information Center)
- Spray drift of pesticides
For content questions contact:
Paul Verke
1001 I Street, P.O. Box 4015
Sacramento, CA 95812-4015
Telephone: (916) 445-3974
E-mail: pverke@cdpr.ca.gov