Pesticide registration will have more time to meet their labeling obligation under EPA’s knotty 2006 final establishing management and disposal standards for pesticide containers and containment. Compliance with the rule was initially required by August 16, 2009. In October 2008, the Agency extended the deadline to August 16, 2010. Following requests from registrants and other stakeholders, the Agency has now taken too actions.
First, in a final rule, EPA extended the deadline to December 16,2010. This deadline is intended less as a compliance date for pesticide registrants than as a sufficient period of time for EPA to propose and make final a rule that extends the deadline another year to August 16, 2011.
Therefore, concurrent with the rule authorizing the extension, EPA also proposed the 1-year extension.
The additional time should be much appreciated by registrants whose labor to grasp the exceptionally complex requirements has been followed by accumulating administrative obstacles.
From: AgroNews
By Lisa
Updates from United Nation Environmenta Programme
2010-9-30
Recently, the United Nations Environment Programme in 2001 based on "on Persistent Organic Pollutants Stockholm Convention", the new chemical substances 9 to include human and animal health and the environment against harmful substances and the list of restricted chemicals, so making the world are classified as prohibited and restricted chemicals used in total to 21. The revised bill is "on Persistent Organic Pollutants Stockholm Convention" for the first time to increase restrictions and prohibition of the use of chemical substances list.
United Nations Environment Programme press release issued in Geneva said, including α-HCH, β-HCH, six and seven polybrominated diphenyl ethers PBDEs, polybrominated diphenyl ethers and five four bromine ether, chlordecone, six polybrominated biphenyls, lindane, PeCB and PFOS and its salts and perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride, and other common chemicals being used to varying degrees, to kill pesticides, fire-resistant agent or for other business purposes, often within the intake of human and animal organs.
On 14th September, representatives from all walks like agrochemicals, government and interests had already extend the related details of Atrazine to EPA members.
Atrazine as one of those herbicides widely concerned, the whole subjects could reach 6,000 and last many years. Of course its safety and effectivity have already been acknowledged but there are still a lot of comments from environmentalists to require reestimate again and again.
The representatives of Products Union and Farmer are always the stable supporter of Atrazine in the reestimated meeting owe to 1/2 corn, 2/3 broomcorn and 9/10 beet in American need it, and more effective when mixed with other herbicides to wipe off some resistant ruderal. Several institutes have already approved it as a safe herbicide, so let’s wait for the final approval from EPA.
