"Everything that our state and federal pesticide programs are designed to regulate was being counteracted on the web." Creger is active in the Association of American Pesticide Control Officials (AAPCO) and began pushing for greater attention to the new regulatory challenges on the Internet.
AAPCO and the EPA joined forces on the e-commerce issue very quickly, and in June 2001 both groups set aside one day, which they called Surf Day, when the teams in federal and state pesticide control offices spent the day surfing the Internet in search of sites that may not have been FIFRA-compliant.