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Pesticide Briefs
February 28, 2007


THE NATIONAL SCENE


PESTICIDES TOLERANCE ACTION, REGISTRATION APPLICATIONS, REGISTRATION APPROVALS
After a tolerance has been established, the registrant decides if the commodity/site will be put on the label. Having a tolerance does not automatically mean you can use the chemical. Even when a pesticide has been registered by EPA, you can not use the product until the commodity/site is on the label in your hand. Always read the pesticide label before applying!

 

RISK ASSESSMENTS
It is important for you to know that EPA is conducting a risk assessment on a particular pesticide, because this means that there may be label restrictions in the future for this product. During the risk assessment period, you may make comments to EPA if you think label restrictions will impose a hardship on production of a commodity.

 

REREGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY DECISIONS
It is important for you to know that EPA is conducting a Reregistration study on a particular pesticide, because this means that there may be label restrictions in the future for this product. During the Reregistration period, you may make comments to EPA if you think label restrictions will impose a hardship on production of a commodity.

 

 

OTHER REGULATORY ACTIONS

 

NEWS BRIEFS

 

 

REPORTS/ WEB SITES/ PUB

REPORTS/ WEB SITES/ PUBS

 

 Agency Announces Proposed Decision on Rodenticides-Invites Public Comment  

EPA is proposing measures to reduce risks associated with nine household-use rodenticides.  Rodenticides are an important tool for public health pest control, including controlling mice and rats around the home, but current marketing and use practices have been associated with accidental exposures to thousands of children each year.  Children in low-income families are particularly at risk.  Rodenticide products also pose significant risks to non-target wildlife.  These factors highlight the need for effective rodent control using the safest methods that can be provided.  The Agency's proposed decision would, through use of tamper-resistant bait stations, significantly reduce the likelihood of exposure to children, including those who may be disproportionately at risk for exposure.  Other proposed restrictions would also minimize risks to birds and non-target mammals.  With the proposed risk mitigation measures in place, we believe rodenticide products would remain affordable for all consumers. 

As part of the Agency's program to ensure that all pesticides meet current health and safety standards, EPA is evaluating the following nine rodenticides concurrently to ensure that human health and ecological risk assessment and risk management approaches are consistent.

brodifacoum,
bromadiolone,
bromethalin,
chlorophacinone,
cholecalciferol,
difethialone,
diphacinone,
warfarin,
zinc phosphide. 
 
EPA is proposing the following risk mitigation measures. 

To minimize children's exposure to rodenticide products used in homes, EPA would require that all rodenticide bait products available for sale to consumers be marketed only in tamper-resistant bait stations with solid bait blocks (as opposed to small pellets, for example).  In addition to rodenticide baits, other affordable rodent control products such as spring traps and glue boards would remain available.

To mitigate ecological risks, EPA would classify all bait products containing the active ingredients brodifacoum, bromadiolone, and difethialone as restricted use pesticides, available for purchase and use only by trained, certified pesticide applicators or persons under their direct supervision.  These three rodenticides pose particularly significant risks to wildlife.

To mitigate the risks associated with bait products containing any of these nine rodenticides, EPA would require that labels provide clearer directions to consumers on how to use rodenticide products while minimizing potential exposure to children, wildlife, and pets.

EPA is seeking public comment on the proposed decision until March 19, 2007.  The Agency?s Federal Register notice announcing the proposed decision is available at http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/January/Day-17/p351.htm.  The Agency?s January 17, 2007, Proposed Risk Mitigation Decision for Nine Rodenticides is available at http://www.regulations.gov in docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0955, and on the Rodenticides web page, http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/reregistration/rodenticides/ .  See also the fact sheet on EPA?s proposed rodenticides decision at http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/factsheets/chemicals/rodenticides_fs.htm
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Phosmet Final Decision Released

EPA is issuing its final decision on the restricted-entry intervals for nine uses of the organophosphate pesticide phosmet.  Consistent with EPA?s June 2006 proposal, most restricted entry intervals will be lengthened and additional mitigation will be implemented to protect workers and bystanders.  This risk mitigation will be included on labels of phosmet products sold or distributed by the registrant after June 2008.  The nine uses include: apples (including crabapples), apricots, highbush blueberries, grapes, nectarines, peaches, pears, plums, and prunes.

Additional mitigation includes lower seasonal maximum application rates, prohibition of phosmet application until after certain high-exposure activities have occurred, a 25-foot buffer zone around occupied dwellings for ground applications, a 50-foot buffer zone around occupied dwellings for aerial applications, and health protective entry restrictions for pick-your-own operations.  Additional biomonitoring or other data is also required to address remaining uncertainties in the existing database.

After evaluating the risks and benefits of phosmet use, EPA found in its 2001 Phosmet Interim Reregistration Eligibility Decision (IRED) that 36 uses were eligible for reregistration, three uses would be canceled, and nine uses would be available on a time-limited basis for a period of five years, contingent on the submission of biomonitoring and other data by Gowan Company, the sole technical registrant.  EPA announced in the IRED that it would revaluate these uses in 2006 and today?s decision completes that process.

Phosmet is an alternative to the organophosphate pesticide azinphos-methyl on several major crops including apples, blueberries, and pears.  Azinphos methyl is being phased out over a six-year period due to occupational and ecological concerns.

EPA?s phosmet decision document and other information about this pesticide are available on the Agency?s website at http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/op/phosmet.htm .  Additional information may be found in phosmet docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2002-0354 at http://www.regulations.gov

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Title:  Antimycin A Risk Assessments; Notice of Availability, and Risk Reduction Options
Date of publication:  January 17, 2007
Citation:  Volume 72, Number 10; Page 1990-1992
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/January/Day-17/p411.htm
Purpose:  This notice announces the availability of EPA's risk assessments, and related documents for the pesticide antimycin A, and opens a public comment period on these documents. The public is encouraged to suggest risk management ideas or proposals to address the risks identified. EPA is developing a Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for antimycin A through a modified, 4-Phase public participation process that the Agency uses
to involve the public in developing pesticide reregistration and tolerance reassessment decisions. Through these programs, EPA is ensuring that all pesticides meet current health and safety standards.
Chemical(s):  Antimycin A**
Comments:  Submit your comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-1002, by one of the following methods: Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov or mail.  Comments must be received on or before March 19, 2007.
Contact:  Lance Wormell, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, telephone number: (703) 603-0523; fax
number: (703) 308-7070; e-mail address: wormell.lance@epa.gov
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Title:  National Organic Program--Submission of Petitions of Substances for Inclusion on or Removal From the National List of Substances Allowed and Prohibited in Organic Production and Handling
Date of publication:  January 18, 2007
Citation:  Volume 72, Number 11;  Page 2167-2170
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/January/Day-18/p596.htm
Purpose: This notice supersedes prior Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Organic Program's (NOP) published guidelines used to submit petitions to amend the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances (National List). The National List identifies the synthetic substances that may be used and the non-synthetic substances that may not be used in organic production. The National List also identifies synthetic and non-synthetic substances that may be used in organic handling. This notice provides guidance on who may submit petitions, what substances may be petitioned and the information that is required to be included within a submitted petition. Additionally, this notice establishes new commercial availability evaluation criteria that will be applied during the petition review of non-organic agricultural substances for inclusion onto or removal from Sec. 205.606 of the National List.
Chemical(s):  Various
Comments: Petitions should be submitted in duplicate to: Program Manager, USDA/AMS/TM/NOP, Room 4008-So., Ag Stop 0268, 1400 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20250. Phone: (202) 720-3252.  Fax: (202) 205-7808. To submit petitions electronically, contact the USDA NOP for additional instructions.  Effective Date: These guidelines will be in effect on January 19,  2007.
Contact:  National List Coordinator, National Organic Program, USDA/AMS/TM/NOP, Room 4008-So., Ag Stop 0268, 1400 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20250. Phone: (202) 720-3252. Fax: (202) 720-3252.
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Dear AAPSE Colleagues,

 

Cornell's Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF) has recently launched its Turf Pesticides and Cancer Risk Database at: http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/turf.  This database allows easy access to EPA's cancer risk classifications for 111 active ingredients found in over 2,800 pesticide products registered for use on turf and lawn in New York State.

 

Users can search the database various ways, including by EPA registration number, product name, pesticide type, formulation, active ingredient, CAS number or by EPA cancer risk category.

 

There is also information in the "Search and Help" box on commonly asked questions about the database and an extensive glossary.

 

Look for the "More Information" box for links to pages on interpreting cancer risk information,  explanation of EPA's cancer risk categories, and a bibliography that also includes links to available RED documents for many of the pesticide active ingredients in the database.

 

In addition, we have a handout on the database that you can access on our website at http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/turf/info.cfm. It's downloadable as a PDF file. We encourage you to use the handout (you can reproduce it for educational purposes).

 

We would really appreciate your input on the usefulness of the database, and your ability to find what you need.  We have a very short 5-question survey on our web site that you can use to tell us what you think of the database. (see the purplish keyboard graphic, bottom left)

 

We are applying for additional funds to put together a PowerPoint presentation on the database that pesticide safety educators can use in training sessions. We are also hoping to receive funding to put together a short web movie that could be viewed using Quick Time that would give a mini-tour through the database and its search functions.  We would certainly like to hear from AAPSE members as to what would meet your needs for training and extension materials. (note: the slide set and web movie are in the planning stages, and will not be available until we receive requested funding).

 

Thank you, and we hope to hear from you. Please forward this email to others who would find this information to be useful.

 

Sincerely,

Suz Snedeker and Heather Clark, BCERF

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Suzanne M. Snedeker, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Translational Research
Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors
Cornell Sprecher Institute for Comparative Cancer Research

BCERF
Vet Box 31, Rm. C3 505A
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-6401


Phone:  607 255-5943
Fax:     607 254-4730
Email: sms31@cornell.edu
www:  http://envirocancer.cornell.edu

 

EPA Pesticide Program Updates
from EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs 01/26/07
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides

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Title: Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petitions for Establishment or Amendment to Regulations for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities
Date of publication: January 24, 2007
Citation: Volume 72, Number 15; Page 3132-3133
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/January/Day-24/p1009.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the initial filing of pesticide petitions proposing the establishment or amendment of regulations for residues of pesticide chemicals in or on various commodities.
Chemical(s): fluopicolide; florasulam (fungicides)
Comments: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number and pesticide petition number (PP), by one of the following methods. Refer to Unit II. for specific docket ID numbers for each pesticide petition. Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov or mail.  Comments must be received on or before February 23, 2007.
Contact: PP 5E6903. (Docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0481 Janet Whitehurst; telephone number: (703) 305-6129; e-mail whitehurst.janet@epa.gov
PP 6F7061. (Docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0993 Hope Johnson, telephone number: (703) 305-5410; e-mail address: johnson.hope@epa.gov
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Title: Notice of Filing of a Pesticide Petition for the Establishment of Tolerances for Pendimethalin in or on Beans and Peas
Date of publication: January 24, 2007
Citation: Volume 72, Number 15; Page 3130-3132
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/January/Day-24/p924.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of tolerances for residues of pesticide chemical pendimethalin in or on beans and peas.
Chemical(s): Pendimethalin
Comments: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0995 and pesticide petition number 6F7149,
by one of the following methods: Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov or mail.  Comments must be received on or before February 23, 2007.
Contact: Philip V. Errico, Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency,(703) 305-6663; e-mail address: errico.philip@epa.gov
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Title: Spiromesifen; Pesticide Tolerance
Date of publication: January 24, 2007
Citation: Volume 72, Number 15; Page 3075-3079
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/January/Day-24/p990.htm
Purpose: This regulation revises a tolerance for combined residues of spiromesifen in or on vegetables, fruiting, group 8 and establishes tolerances for inadvertent or indirect combined residues in or on oat (grain, forage, hay, straw). Interregional Research Project No. 4 (IR- 4) and Bayer CropScience (respectively) requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Spiromesifen
Comments:  EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0667. This regulation is effective January 24, 2007. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before March 26, 2007.
Contact: Thomas C. Harris, Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, number: (703) 308-9423; e-mail address: harris.thomas@epa.gov

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Pesticide News Story: Availability of Atrazine Watershed Monitoring Data

January 30, 2007 - In its October 2003 determination that products containing atrazine were eligible for reregistration, EPA required the atrazine registrants, among other things, to undertake an intensive watershed monitoring program to further verify the determination that use of this herbicide was not likely to cause unreasonable risk to freshwater resources. One component of the monitoring program is focused on flowing water bodies, and provides two years of monitoring data, accrued over a three-year period (2004-2006), in 40 potentially vulnerable watersheds associated with corn and sorghum production.

EPA is making these data available consistent with a March 2006 Settlement Agreement with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) requiring EPA to assess the potential effects of atrazine use to eight threatened and endangered species. The Settlement Agreement states that 30 days before completing the effects determination, EPA must make these data available to NRDC and post on our Web site, information to the public on how they may obtain these data. EPA is in the process of assessing the potential effects of atrazine use to the eight threatened and endangered species identified in the Settlement Agreement and will complete that assessment by February 28, 2007. Therefore, on January 29, 2007, EPA made available on its Web site a fact sheet announcing the availability of the watershed monitoring results for the herbicide atrazine in 40 potentially vulnerable watersheds.

The atrazine watershed monitoring data may be obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request after completion and submission of an Affirmation of Non-multinational Status Form, pursuant to FIFRA Section 10(g). The form includes directions for returning the required information to EPA. For more information on Freedom of Information Act requests, please visit the Freedom of Information Act website. When requesting these data, you should request the "Atrazine Ecological Watershed Monitoring Data". EPA will provide these data in pdf format or in hard copy if you do not have pdf capability. A fact sheet regarding these data is available at this EPA website, Release of Atrazine Ecological Watershed Monitoring Data.
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First Registration Review Dockets Open for Comment

EPA has established dockets for the first pesticides to be reviewed under the Agency's new Registration Review Program.  Dockets for the pesticides clomazone, hexythiazox, and lactofen are open for public comment until May 3, 2007.  The Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 requires EPA to implement a new program with the goal of reviewing all pesticides every 15 years for the purpose of ensuring that each EPA-registered pesticide performs its intended function without unreasonable adverse effects on human health or the environment.  The Registration Review Program will ensure that as science, policies, and practices change, pesticide products in the marketplace can still be used safely.

Each docket contains a Summary Document that includes:
a Preliminary Work Plan highlighting anticipated risk assessment and data needs, providing an anticipated timeline for completing the pesticide's review, and identifying the types of information that would be especially useful to the Agency in conducting the review;
a fact sheet summarizing the current status of the pesticide;
an ecological risk assessment problem formulation section; and
a human health scoping section, describing the scientific analyses necessary to complete the pesticides? registration reviews.

The Agency also announced that sulfosate is no longer scheduled for registration review and EPA will not open a docket for the pesticide because it has no active federal product registrations. 

EPA plans to open registration review dockets for 25 pesticide cases in fiscal year 2007 and 45 cases in fiscal year 2008.  A four-year schedule for registration reviews is available on the Agency's Registration Review website at  http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/registration_review/schedule.htm.

Information about the registration reviews for clomazone, hexythiazox, and lactofen is available in the dockets for these pesticides at http://www.regulations.gov , and on EPA?s Registration Review website, http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/registration_review/.  Information on how to submit comments is available in the Agency's February 2, 2007 Federal Register Notice http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/February/Day-02/p486.htm.
 
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Judge assesses 2nd highest penalty for worker safety

(Washington, D.C. - Feb. 1, 2007) EPA today applauds a legal victory against Martex Farms, a Puerto Rican company, for violating the worker protection provisions of U.S. pesticide laws.

The company has been ordered to pay a total penalty of $92,620, which is the second highest penalty ever assessed under EPA's worker protection standard, which is authorized by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). 

"This is an important legal win for EPA and a major step forward for environmental enforcement," said Granta Nakayama, assistant administrator for EPA's enforcement and compliance program. "We will continue enforcing EPA's regulations to protect agricultural workers from unnecessary exposure to pesticides."

On Jan. 19, EPA's Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) office found Martex liable for 170 alleged violations of EPA's worker protection standards, and ruled that Martex failed to display specific pesticide application information for its agricultural workers and pesticide handlers, failed to provide them with decontamination materials, and failed to provide handlers with personal protective equipment.

The ALJ decision underscores EPA's position that failing to provide agricultural workers and pesticide handlers with specific pesticide application information on the same application constitutes separate, independent violations. In addition, this ruling reaffirms the requirement that every handler applying pesticides must be provided with personal protection equipment.

In January 2005, EPA filed a complaint against Martex for improperly using pesticides and endangering worker safety. 
   
Martex Farms grows, processes, packs and ships tropical fruits and plants. The family-owned business was established in 1989, and employs hundreds of people at its numerous facilities in Puerto Rico.
 
The EPA's worker protection standards are designed to reduce the risk of injury or illness to agricultural field workers resulting from exposure to pesticides. Agricultural workers may be injured from direct spray, drift or residue left by pesticide applications. Pesticide handlers face additional risks from spills, splashes, inhalation, and inadequate protective equipment.

FIFRA provides the basis for regulation, sale, distribution and use of pesticides in the United States. FIFRA authorizes EPA to review and register pesticides for specified uses. EPA also has the authority to suspend or cancel the registration of a pesticide if subsequent information shows that continued use would pose unreasonable risks.

More information about the Martex Administrative Law Decision:  http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/cases/civil/mm/martexfarms.html
 
More information about EPA's worker protection standard:  http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/health/worker.htm
 
Help protect our Nation's land, air and water by reporting violations: http://www.epa.gov/tips
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Title:  Monocarbamide Dihydrogen Sulfate (Urea Sulfate); Tolerance Reassessment Decision for Low Risk Pesticide; Notice of Availability
Date of publication:  January 31, 2007
Citation:  Volume 72, Number 20; Page 4503-4505
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/January/Day-31/p1435.htm
Purpose:  This notice announces the availability of EPA's Tolerance Reassessment Decision (TRED) for the pesticide monocarbamide dihydrogen sulfate (Urea sulfate), and opens a public comment period on this document, related risk assessments, and other support documents. EPA has reviewed the low risk pesticide monocarbamide dihydrogen sulfate (Urea sulfate) through a modified, streamlined version of the public participation process that the Agency uses to involve the public in developing pesticide tolerance reassessment and reregistration decisions. Through the tolerance reassessment program, EPA is ensuring that all pesticides meet current health and food safety standards.
Chemical(s):  Monocarbamide Dihydrogen Sulfate
Comments:  Direct your comments to docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP- 2007-0007.  Comments must be received on or before April 2, 2007.
Contact:  Bentley C. Gregg, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: 703-308-8178; e-mail address: gregg.bentley@epa.gov
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 Message to OPP staff regarding the February 6 episode of "Law and
 Order:  Special Victims Unit"

 Some of you may have seen the Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
 episode with a story line about pesticide testing that aired on
 February 6.  The story depicted "research" involving intentional dosing
 of uninformed individuals, who were harmed by their exposure to an
 unregistered pesticide.  I don’t need to tell you we would not allow
 this, but you may have seen publicity with contrary information or have
 received questions from others, and I want you to have accurate
 information with which to answer those questions.

 The show was filled with factual inaccuracies.  The kind of testing
 depicted on the show violates multiple requirements in EPA’s
 regulations designed to protect all people from unethical research:

       The show alleged there were loopholes for “observational
       research.”in EPA’s rules that would allow pesticide companies to
       conduct such a fictional study.     The fictional study, however,
       clearly involved intentional dosing of children with pesticides
       (not observational research), and EPA rules categorically
       prohibit all intentional dosing studies with children, as well as
       with pregnant or nursing women.
       While such a study would never be allowed, the fictional chemical
       company went even further and lied about the research and did not
       tell the subjects they were being exposed to dangerous
       organophosphate pesticides.
       The study unnecessarily put the subjects’ health at serious risk
       – a risk that would never be tolerated under EPA rules, no matter
       how fully risks were disclosed.

In February 2006 EPA issued a tough new regulation governing human
testing for pesticides by pesticide companies and other parties not
affiliated with the government.  Our rule put in place the nation’s
strongest protections for subjects in third-party research, including:

      A prohibition against research involving intentional dosing of
      pregnant women, nursing women, or children;
      A prohibition against EPA relying on such testing in its decisions
      under the pesticide laws; and
      A requirement that all new intentional dosing human studies on
      non-pregnant, non-nursing adults be reviewed by EPA and a panel of
      independent experts for ethical and scientific acceptability.

For more information, see these Websites:

EPA’s Human Studies Web page:
http://www.epa.gov/oppfead1/guidance/human-test.htm

The Common Rule:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_00/40cfr26_00.html

 

EPA Pesticide Program Updates
from EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs 02/13/07
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides

Kevin Keaney
Chief,  Pesticide Worker Safety Programs &
          Pesticide Container / Containment Programs
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
703-305-5557
703-308-2962 fax
keaney.kevin@epa.gov
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Title: Chloropicrin Risk Assessments (Phase 3 of 6-Phase Process) Notice of Availability; Extension of Comment Period
Date of publication:  February 7, 2007
Citation:  Volume 72, Number 25, Page 5704-5705
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/February/Day-07/p2001.htm
Purpose: EPA issued a notice in the Federal Register of November 29, 2006 announcing the availability of EPA's human health and environmental fate and effects risk assessments and related documents for the fumigant, chloropicrin. The comment period for the notice ended on January 29, 2007. Subsequently, EPA extended the comment period until February 23, 2007. With this action, EPA is extending the comment period for an additional 5 days.
Chemical(s):  Chloropicrin**
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0061. Comments must be received on or before February 28, 2007.
Contact: Nathan Mottl, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 305-0208; e-mail address: mottl.nathan@epa.gov
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Title: Ethofumesate; Modification and Closure of Reregistration Eligibility Decision; Notice of Availability
Date of publication:  February 7, 2007
Citation:  Volume 72, Number 25, Page 5705-5706
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/February/Day-07/p2006.htm
Purpose: This notice announces EPA's intention to modify certain risk mitigation measures that were imposed as a result of the 2005 Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for the pesticide ethofumesate, and opens a public comment period on these changes. EPA conducted this reassessment of the ethofumesate RED in response to new dermal absorption data submitted by the technical registrant, Bayer CropScience, Inc. These data allowed the Agency to modify its original assumption of 100% dermal absorption to 27% and thus modify the ethofumesate label requirements including: removing the 9-day re-entry interval for maintenance activity and adjusting the existing harvest prohibition for sod from 16 days to 3 days.
Chemical(s):  Ethofumesate;**
Comments:  Submit your comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2004-0346, by one of the following methods: Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov or mail.  Comments must be received on or before March 9, 2007.
Contact: Nathan Mottl, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 305-0208; e-mail address: mottl.nathan@epa.gov
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Title: Tris (2-ethylhexyl) Phosphate; Exemption from the Requirement of a Tolerance
Date of publication:  February 7, 2007
Citation:  Volume 72, Number 25, Page 5621-5624
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/February/Day-07/p460.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of tris (2-ethylhexyl) phosphate (TEHP, CAS Reg. No. 78-42-2) when used as an inert ingredient in pesticide formulations with the active ingredients pinoxaden, clodinafop-propargyl, and tralkoxydium, with no more than two applications per season when applied to wheat and barley up to the pre-boot stage (prior to formation of edible grain). Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC submitted a petition to EPA under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA), requesting an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance. This regulation eliminates the need to establish a maximum permissible level for residues of TEHP.
Chemical(s):  Tris (2-ethylhexyl) Phosphate
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0970. This regulation is effective February 7, 2007. Objections and
requests for hearings must be received on or before April 9, 2007.
Contact: R. Tracy Ward, Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 308-9361; e-mail address: ward.tracyh@epa.gov

* Mailing address for all listed staff: Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20460

**For information about this pesticide and access to the documents being announced see:  www.epa.gov/pesticide/registration/status.htm.

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1. Deliverables/Successes

Food Use

 

  

Ornamental Program

 

 

Outreach/Communications

 

 

2. Work In Progress

 

Ornamental

 

 

 

 

  

3. Future Research Planning

Food Use

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Ornamental

 

 

4. Quality Assurance

 

5. Crop Grouping / International Activities 

 

 

 

6. Miscellaneous Information

Budget—Congress has sent a fiscal year 2007 funding bill to the President that will fund IR-4 at 2006 levels.  However, IR-4 is moved out of a Special Grants category into a new “Improved Pest Control” area.  The implication of this move is being investigated. 

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 PUBLICATION

 

Title:  Farm Family Exposure to Pesticides…a discussion with farm families

Author:  Whitford, Fred

Number of Pages:  34

Purdue Extension

Introduction:  As farmers and farmers’ spouses, you recognize the benefits of using pesticides in your crop and livestock operations, yet you may be concerned about the possibility of adverse effects on your family’s health and safety.  This publication addresses questions and concerns regarding pesticide risks and explains how risk is evaluated; it directs you to additional sources of information on pesticide toxicity.  Data from the Farm Family Exposure Study are reported, showing that farmers and their families who took simple precautions exhibited lower exposure levels than those who did not.  Steps to minimize pesticide risks around the farm are emphasized.

 

For More Information Contact:

Susan Whitney King,
University of Delaware
Extension Pesticide Coordinator at Pesticide Applicator Training

(302) 831-8886

swhitney@udel.edu

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PUBLICATION

 

Title:  The Pesticide Marketplace: Discovering & Developing New Products

Author:  Whitford, Fred

Number of Pages:  62

Purdue Extension

 

For More Information Contact:

Susan Whitney King,
University of Delaware
Extension Pesticide Coordinator at Pesticide Applicator Training

(302) 831-8886

swhitney@udel.edu

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 PUBLICATION

 

Title:  Pesticide Data Program Annual Summary Calendar Year 2005

Author:  Day, Lloyd C.

Number of Pages:  162

United States Department of Agriculture

Agricultural Marketing Service

Science and Technology Programs

Website:  www.ams.usda.gov/pdp

 

Enclosed is a copy of the Pesticide Data Program (PDP) Summary of 2005 Data.  For more information of PDP or to request additional copies, please contact the Monitoring Programs Office at :  telephone (703-330-2300), facsimile (703-369-0678), or electronic mail (amsmpo.data@usda.gov).


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