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EPA DECLINES TO BAR "FOR-USE-BY" STATEMENTS ON PESTICIDE LABELS, AT LEAST FOR NOW ---- State regulators oppose label statements that limit who can apply a general use pesticide, viewing them as "marketing ploys" by registrants. Although New York allows only certified applicators to use such products, EPA isn't planning any label changes if at all until its Worker Protection Standards and Certification and Training regulations are first revised.
AQUATIC PESTICIDES SPARED FROM WATER PERMIT REQUIREMENTS UNDER NEW EPA RULE --- Although EPA's new regulation exempts properly-used aquatic pesticides from Clean Water Act permit requirements, it may result in dual violations under FIFRA and CWA for misuses. However, it's impossible to say that the issue is now settled: unresolved litigation is still pending and the political shift in Congress could result in legislative opposition.
ATRAZINE CONCENTRATIONS IN DRINKING WATER DECLINING, SYNGENTA STUDIES FIND --- In an exclusive interview, Syngenta officials discuss their most recent trend analysis showing a continued decline in atrazine impacts to drinking water and how they achieved those reductions. Since 1993, Syngenta has spent over $14 million on atrazine water monitoring, and is now looking for competing generic technical registrants to share those costs.
CROP PROTECTION INSTITUTE DISPUTES BENEFITS OF ORGANIC APPLE GROWING METHODS --- A new analysis challenges the widely quoted Washington State University study published in Nature, and concludes that the organic system used in the study was four times more harmful to the environment than the conventional pesticide system.
WSU RESEARCHERS REBUT CRITICISMS OF THEIR LANDMARK ORGANIC APPLE STUDY ---- Against new claims that their research failed to demonstrate the viability of organic apple growing, two WSU professors explain what their study did, and did not, conclude.
AN INSIDER LOOK AT ORGANIC APPLE GROWING --- Organic growers face their own unique problems and their costs are higher than conventional growers, but for now, the demand for organically grown apples exceeds supply.
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