The Centre for Agricultural Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan has created disposable notices to warn people about fields sprayed with insecticide.
The goal is to prevent accidental entry into sprayed fields.
The yellow, disposable plastic bag states “Pesticide Applied” and can be secured to fence posts or stakes. The bag has space for the chemical name, spraying date and the re-entry time.
“We encourage producers to post fields being sprayed with organophosphate, carbanate or synthetic pyrethroid insecticides,” says Lori Lockinger, program co-ordinator of the centre’s Rural Health Extension Program.
“These chemicals act by inhibiting an enzyme in the body called chol-inesterase, which is essential to the proper functioning of the central nervous system.”
Farmers can get their first 30 sign bags free at the Centre for Agricultural Medicine at the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, and at all Saskatchewan Rural Service Centres. Extra bags cost 10 cents each.
