International Pest Control Community Ratifies Historic Mission Statement
(Pest Control Industry and Pesticide Manufacturers pat themselves on the back, maintain a firm commitment to pesticides, hand out leather bound copies of their international mission statement to continue business as usual.)
Read the "Orlando Protocol"
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International Pest Control Community Ratifies Historic Mission Statement
Date:
Tue, 5 Nov 2002
From:
Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide
Regulation
cc: Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov
International Pest Control Community Ratifies Historic
Mission Statement
By Frances McKim 11/4/2002
URL: http://www.pctonline.com/news/news.asp?ID=1476/
ORLANDO — The ideals under which the world-wide pest
control industry operates have been defined within a clear statement of
intent known as The Orlando Protocol.
This protocol was ratified at an official signing
ceremony during the NPMA Pest Management '02 Convention at the Gaylord Palms
Resort & Convention Center, Orlando, Fla., in October.
Produced by the informal World-wide Environmental Pest
Management Alliance (WEPMA) grouping, this mission statement for the pest
control industry has taken nearly a year to draft and seek unanimous
approval.
Following in the established tradition, the protocol
took its name from the location of its singing. At the signing ceremony,
which was sponsored by Sorex International, PestWest and BASF, the heads of
the four regional pest management associations (NPMA, CEPA, COPLAG and FAOPMA)
initiated the signing.
Each regional association was presented with their own
leather-bound book, produced by Benjamin Gomez of Univar Mexico, within which
the signatures of all their territorial associations, organizations and
individuals will be recorded.
A copy of the Orlando Protocol can be viewed
http://www.pctonline.com/news/images/orlandoletter.pdf
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