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Organic farm in California gets compensation for pesticide drift
a california court awarded a us $1 million compensation to an organic farm whose culinary herbs were contaminated by pesticides drifting in from a neighbouring farm.
Jacobs Farm, part of Del Cabo farms in Santa Cruz, suffered losses as pesticides destroyed significant portions of its harvests of sage, rosemary, dill and other herbs. In May 2007, Jacobs Farm filed a case against pesticide application company Western Farm Service Inc.
Traces of several organophosphate chemicals
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