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AG RETAILERS OPPOSE PROGRAM ALLOWING U.S. FARMERS TO BUY CANADIAN PESTICIDES --- The Agricultural Retailers Association is up in arms over EPA's pending Own Use Import program, which allows U.S. farmers to buy, re-label and import cheaper Canadian pesticides for their own use. The Agency, however, says it's just a temporary program until it can register more pesticides with NAFTA labels.
AN INSIDER LOOK AT PESTICIDE RETAILER SERVICES --- Ag retailers say that EPA's Own Use Import program would undercut their pesticide stewardship efforts, and vow to withhold their extensive valued-added services from farmers seeking help for pesticides bought in Canada under that program.
STATES AND EPA EXCHANGE VIEWS ON A WIDE RANGE OF PESTICIDE ISSUES --- State pesticide regulators ask EPA to classify strychnine rodenticides as restricted use pesticides and discuss concerns over residential and antimicrobial use of chemigation systems. Other topics include sunscreen products that contain insect repellents, the Red Cross symbol on Clorox labels, WPS revisions, and possible ESA enforcement conflicts with the Fish and Wildlife Service.
MEETING PROVIDES MUCH NEEDED PRIMER ON NAFTA LABEL ISSUES --- With the first NAFTA pesticide label now out, and some lawmakers anxious to make NAFTA mandatory for certain products -- perhaps prematurely -- discussions between state and federal officials at a recent meeting offered a helpful primer on everything you need to know about NAFTA labeling but were afraid to ask.
STATE FRUSTRATION ERUPTS OVER UNENFORCEABLE PESTICIDE LABELS --- Frustration by state regulators boiled over at a recent meeting over unenforceable advisory language on pesticide labels approved by EPA. An Agency representative felt that there may be a problem with training the Product Managers often enough, but also shifted blame to companies that "are relentless in coming in with lousy draft labels."
DEMANDS FOR PESTICIDE E-LABELING RETURN TO PRIME TIME --- State pesticide regulators have passed the point of waiting passively for an answer from EPA to their fundamental question: Is the electronic distribution, printing and subsequent field use of supplemental labels legal or not?
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