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management and mechanical traps. Ambuter also recommended common iconography and an enhanced website. New data and studies should be generated to help determine the pathway of consumer, professional and agricultural rodenticides into non-target wildlife; to determine if poisoned mice go outside to die in search of water; and to investigate the presence and extent of rodents with a genetic predisposition to resistance to first generation active ingredients. There should be improved tracking and monitoring of adverse events. Kristin Power, Consumer Specialty Products Assn. (CSPA) Director, State Affairs, West Region & ARR Executive Director, presented an Alliance for Responsible Regulation (ARR) Update. 28 Spray November 2013 The ARR was formed to articulate the legal, technical and scientific reasons why regulatory proposals are flawed and could have devastating impacts on the consumer products industry. It facilitates the sharing of information, develops strategic advocacy efforts, coordinates legal and scientific review and analysis of the proposals and supports documents by participating organizations, and fundraises to support outside legal and scientific review. ARR provides coordinated comments and First Annual Paul Robinson Memorial Golf Tournament The WAIB launched the first ever Annual Paul Robinson Memorial Golf Tournament at the Fall meeting. Robinson was instrumental in the forming of the WAIB in 1973, became a founding Board member in 1979, and was the second President of the organization in 1980. He is perhaps better known as the first Golf Chairman of the WAIB and he continued in that capacity as Chair and Honorary Chair up until his death. Robinson was a salesman for Crown Cork & Seal, calling on the beer and beverage industry, as well as the cosmetic and chemical specialty companies for aerosol containers from 1968 until joining Industrial Hydrocarbons, Inc. (IHI) in the mid-1970s. He became Executive VP of IHI in 1978 until the distribution business was sold in 1983 to Aeropres Corp. He worked for Aeropres as its West Coast sales representative until his passing on Oct. 30, 2012 at the age of 83. Power WAIB in Napa Mike Thaete of Aptar Beauty + Home (left) and Kent Houser of Cobra Plastics both won the prestigious Paul Robinson Cup. Robinson


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