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SACRAMENTO – The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is announcing a vacancy on the Fertilizer Inspection Advisory Board.
The board oversees the department’s Fertilizing Materials Inspection Program, which works to ensure that consumers receive fertilizing materials that are safe and effective and meet the quality guaranteed by the manufacturer.
As part of the Fertilizing Materials Inspection Program, inspectors and investigators located throughout the state conduct routine sampling and inspections; respond to consumer complaints; and enforce the laws and regulations that govern the manufacturing and distribution of fertilizing materials. The program is funded by fertilizer license fees and assessments.
The term of office for board members is three years. Members receive no compensation, but are entitled to payment of necessary traveling expenses in accordance with the rules of the Department of Personnel Administration.
Applicants should hold a current California Fertilizing Materials License or be a representative of a licensed firm.
Individuals interested in being considered for a board appointment should send a brief resume by July 13 to the California Department of Food and Agriculture – Feed, Fertilizer, Livestock Drugs and Egg Regulatory Services Branch, 1220 N St., Sacramento, CA 95814, Attn: Asif Mann.
For additional information in the Fertilizer Inspection Advisory Board, contact Asif Mann at 916-445-0444 or e-mail
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The CDFA has successfully brought the amount of toxic pesticides used in California to over 200 million pounds per year. That is about six pounds for every man, woman, child, fetus and pregnant woman EVERY YEAR. CDFA works for the benefit of these corporate chemical companies, for their own existence and power, but not for the consumers or growers in the agriculture community. CDFA does not protect the food supply or the environment.
CDFA has contributed dramatically to the devastation of wild life, beneficial insects and bees that are so important for pollinating our food crops. Yet CDFA's public relations work and expenditures grow as they publicize themselves as the caretakers of our food, our environment and essentially our children's caretakers.
CDFA fakes insects as dangerous to rob $$$billions of dollars of public funds for unnecessary programs, yet they are penny cheap in assisting growers with legitimate difficulties such as population intrusion and water problems. CDFA strong-arms small growers with unnecessary inspections and quarantines, and they threaten shutting down growers who don't play along.
It is no accident or coincidence that A.G. Kawamura was not at the Florez hearing for his own agency's survival, reorganization or budget. Kawamura, the CDFA director, has delivered so many false statements to the press, public and agriculture community over so many years that he simply could not substantiate his comments or actions under the scrutiny of Senator Florez. Instead, they sent a lady with a smooth tongue who no longer works at the CDFA, but who works in marketing and relations and Florez could not hold her accountable, as he could had Kawamura been in the hearing. With Public relations and misrepresentations, CDFA is the master.
Here is but one example of a recent sham by CDFA:
http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/view/76798
The concept of CDFA sounds legitimate, but the activities of CDFA under Kawamura are not.