The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday that it will strengthen its assessment of pesticide risks, particularly to farmworkers and children. Per the press release:

Under the policy, EPA risk assessments for children, farmworkers and others, would consider aggregate pesticide exposures from all sources in addition to the cumulative effects from multiple pesticides that have similar toxicity.

The information generated by this process is sure to be of interest to nursery growers who apply chemicals, employ others to do so, or are exposed by virtue of pesticide use on their farms.