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Acknowledgment The book editors would like to thank the individuals and groups who have made this book possible, and who have contributed to the on-going use of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s (CDPR) Pesticide Use Reporting (PUR) database to inform pest management, research, and policy in California. We would like to acknowledge the foresight of the California state legislators who brought the PUR system into existence through the passage of the Food and Agriculture Code 14012, Chapter 1169 which initiated limited PUR reporting in 1969, and the Food Safety Act, Chapter 12001, AB 2161, which modified the program into its current form in 1990. Without this legislative will driving the requirements for both reporting and funding of the program, California’s current PUR database would not exist. The editors gratefully acknowledge the pesticide users within California who have carefully reported their use over the past decades. We acknowledge that complying with reporting requirements takes time from your already-overfilled schedules. Nonetheless, your diligence helps ensure that California’s pesticide use requirements are based on real-world data. This book would not have been possible without the strong support from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to organize and lead a symposium on “Managing Pesticide Use and Use Data” during the 25th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C. in August 2017. The positive response received during the symposium encouraged us to propose an ACS Symposium Series book on “Managing and Analyzing Pesticide Use Data for Pest Management, Environmental Monitoring, Public Health and Public Policies”. We are very grateful to Brian Leahy (Director, CDPR), Teresa Marks (Deputy Director, CDPR), Jesse Cuevas (Assistant Director, Pesticide Programs Division, CDPR) Joseph Damiano (Branch Chief, Pest Management and Licensing Branch, CDPR), Nino Yanga (Environmental Program Manager I, Pest Management and Licensing Branch, CDPR) and the scientists of the Pest Management and Licensing Branch’s Agricultural Pest Management Program for their dedication and commitment to this project. We would also like to thank the ACS Agrochemical division staff who assisted us during the symposium. Sara Tenney, Arlene Furman, and Amanda Koenig from ACS publications were instrumental in crafting the proposal for this volume, and their assistance in the book chapter development. We thank all of the authors and reviewers for their hard work to ensure that this book serves as an informative, accurate and insightful resource on pesticide use reporting data and its current and potential uses. Minghua Zhang, Scott Jackson, Mark A. Robertson, and Michael R. Zeiss
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