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A Quick Overview of Pesticide Drift Liability

Author: 
Paul Goeringer
Post date: 
Mar 1, 2015

Photo by Edwin Remsberg

This post should not be considered legal advice

            Recently I was asked to present at the University of Maryland Extension’s commercial pesticide training in Frederick and Denton.  My topic was pesticide drift liability.  I decided to bypass looking at the administrative process through the Maryland Department of Agriculture and focused on previous court decisions involving drift liability related to negligence, trespass, and using the pesticide outside the label.

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