5.6. Labels
Designing appropriate pesticide labels has been difficult
for EPA, which has to balance a desire to provide
the most relevant usage information as clearly
and succinctly as possible against a legal need to provide
all pertinent information for use of a pesticide
in all situations in enforceable language. None of the
coefficients of the importance of this source of information
were significantly different from zero at a 5%
significance level or lower. The lack of correlation between
importance of this source of information and
environmental attitudes suggests that label language is
neutral with regard to attitudes toward environmental
problems associated with pesticides.