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Pesticide News Story: Simazine Risk Assessments Available for Public Comment
For Release: July 22, 2005
The public can now access and comment on human health and environmental fate and effects risk assessments and related documents for the chlorinated triazine pesticide simazine (Docket ID number OPP-2005-0151). Simazine is a systematic herbicide that is usually applied to soil, absorbed through leaves and roots, and acts by inhibiting photosynthesis within targeted plants. Registered uses for simazine include pre-plant use or use in established fields of a variety of food and feed crops including fruit and nut crops in addition to field crops.
Through a Federal Register notice published on July 13, 2005, EPA initiated a 60-day comment period closing on September 12, 2005, which allows interested parties to provide comments and input on the Agency's risk assessments for simazine. Additionally, EPA is providing an opportunity for interested parties to provide risk management proposals. This review of simazine is part of the Agency's Interim Reregistration Eligibility Decision (IRED) and public participation process to ensure that all pesticides meet current health and safety standards.
Major potential human health and ecological risks of concern are summarized, and specific questions for which the Agency is requesting public input, are provided in a separate document available in the simazine docket titled Request for Additional Information and Risk Management Suggestions for the Reregistration of Simazine.
The Federal Register notice of availability, risk assessments, and related information on simazine are available on EPA’s Web site at http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/reregistration/simazine/.