Answering the question: Should you inform the misinformed? Where does your responsibility as a pest management professional (PMP) begin and end? This question occurred to me while scanning online news for Pest Management Professional’s (PMP’s) Facebook wall. When I find news stories on a site with a comment section below it, I can’t resist reading […]
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