Environmental Protection Agency Announces Pesticides Review

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released proposed interim decisions for pesticides under registration review as part of third quarter fiscal year 2022 actions. The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) requires that the EPA reviews pesticides every 15 years to ensure risk assessments reflect the best available science.

Registration review ensures that, as the ability to assess risk evolves and policies and practices change, the pesticide continues to meet the statutory standard of not causing unreasonable adverse effects on human health or the environment. When the EPA identifies risks that are of concern to human health or the environment, it changes pesticide labels to mitigate those risks.

Proposed Interim Decisions (PIDs) propose mitigation measures based on findings from the project's human health and ecological risk assessments (DRAs) and feedback submitted during the DRAs' public comment period. The PIDs released today are for the following pesticides:

Biopesticides:  2-methyl-1-butanol; Calcium acetate; Candida oleophilaI; Cedarwood oil; Citral; Heptyl butyrate; and l-carvone.  

Conventional research chemicals: Chlorflurenol methyl ester; Sedaxane; Tebuconazole; and Triadimefon and Triadimenol. 

With the publication of the Federal Register notice, PIDs are now available for public comment in each pesticide review record in www.regulations.gov. Public comments will be accepted for 60 days.

After considering comments on the PIDs, the next step in the registration review process will be the interim decision, which finalizes any risk mitigation measures necessary to address human health and ecological risks of concern.