OUTGOING OPP DIRECTOR COVERS THE WATERFRONT IN REMARKS TO STATE PESTICIDE REGULATORS --- Jim Jones, hours before being named to a higher-level post at EPA, addressed registration review, performance measures, reinvigorating the antimicrobials testing program, glyphosate resistance, cause marketing on pesticide labels, atrazine monitoring data, worker protection, NAFTA labels, state coordination on label language issues, and relations with AAPCO and SFIREG.

FEDS UPDATE STATES ON CONTROVERSIAL PESTICIDE ISSUES --- An EPA official, who said the Agency is about to issue long-awaited guidance on mold-product labeling, also explained upcoming restrictions on air duct antimicrobials to skeptical state regulators. Other officials addressed GHS labels, the new container & containment rule, the pending recycling rule, and EPA's plans to test and incorporate drift-reduction technologies in risk mitigation decisions. In the meantime, an ongoing National Cancer Institute pesticide exposure study is finding more cancer associations than expected.

STAKEHOLDERS RAISE NUMEROUS REGISTRATION REVIEW CONCERNS --- At the inaugural meeting of its Registration Review Implementation Workgroup, EPA wanted general feedback on its new registration review process, but instead got an earful of specific questions and objections regarding its first two reviews.

EPA WORKGROUP ON PESTICIDE SPRAY DRIFT FALLS SHORT OF GOALS AT FINAL MEETING --- At the last scheduled face-to-face meeting of EPA's Spray Drift Workgroup, industry and environmentalists failed to reach a consensus on a number of significant outstanding issues, but vowed to try again in upcoming conference calls. How EPA might proceed if no consensus emerges by the workgroup's sunset date remains to be seen.

EPA OPENS DISCUSSIONS ON AZINPHOS-METHYL TRANSITION --- A new EPA workgroup has more questions than answers as the Agency tries to help farmers find new ways to kill old pests with alternatives to their mainstay insecticides, azinphos-methyl and its main alternative, phosmet -- which are both being phased out. In the meantime, Earthjustice has filed suit to ban those two pesticides even sooner, along with chlorpyrifos.

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