The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Pesticide Services, has selected the patent-pending FieldSurv® application from KRSNetwork to bring increased efficiencies to pesticide marketplace enforcement activities.
The contract calls for KRSNetwork to supply 11 Casio EG-800 ruggedized Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) equipped with barcode readers and 13-hour batteries to the Department’s enforcement field staff.
Operating on the Microsoft® Windows® CE system and holding 32 MB of RAM, the PDAs will carry the complete Department pesticide product database for instantaneous registration status verification. Instead of searching for products in a large computer printout, field inspectors will simply scan the UPC barcode on the product label. The FieldSurv® software performs an instant comparison against the database and displays the current registration status. If a product’s UPC is not found in the database, the inspector can search by the product name or EPA registration number. The software’s self-learning capability then associates the UPC with the product for all future marketplace inspections. Daily synchronizations keep the PDAs and main database continually updated.
In other states where the KRSNetwork FieldSurv® Application is in use, inspectors have been able to significantly increase the number of pesticide product marketplace inspections performed weekly. As a result, hundreds of unregistered products have been identified and either brought into compliance by the manufacturers or removed from store shelves for proper disposal.
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