Laws & Regulations

Paladin® EC (Dimethyl Disulfide, DMDS) Fumigant Safe Handling Guide

Certified pesticide applicators are required to provide safety information to handlers working in an application block or buffer zone, including instruction on personal protective equipment, air monitoring, respiratory protection, and exposure mitigation.

Methyl Bromide and Chloropicrin Safety Information for Handlers

Labels for these kind of pesticides require that soil fumigant handlers receive safe handling training before participating in field fumigation, according to the Worker Protection Standard (WPS) and Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs).

Dazomet Fumigant Management Plan Phase 2 Templates

These templates provide a framework for reporting application block information, buffer zones, emergency response plan, tarp plan, soil conditions, air monitoring, and more for pesticide products containing the active ingredient dazomet, such as Basamid G.

Dimethyl Disulfide (DMDS) Fumigant Management Plan Template Phase 2

These templates provide a framework for developing your FMP, including sections on your supervising pesticide applicator, buffer zones, emergency response plan, handler information, tarp plan, soil conditions, signage, and air monitoring plan.

Soil Fumigant Labels

The 2012 updated pesticide labels include new safety requirements for buffer zones and related measures. Find labels for each different type of fumigant: chloropicrin, dazomet, dimethyl disulfide, metam sodium/potassium, and methyl bromide.

Buffer Zone Sign Template

The certified pesticide applicator is required to post a comparable sign, designating a buffer zone around the soil fumigant application block in order to control exposure risk. It must include the "don't walk" symbol, product name, and applicator contact.

Paladin® (Dimethyl Disulfide, DMDS) Fumigant Safe Handling Guide

This liquid pre-plant soil fumigant pesticide poses potential exposure risk concerns, so the product label and Fumigant Management Plan (FMP) address personal protective equipment, air monitoring, and respiratory protection.

Pesticide Registration Manual: Title Page For a Newly Submitted Study

Certain information should be included on the title page of a study submitted to EPA in support of pesticide registration. See a template for these elements.

Pesticide Registration Manual: Chapter 19 - How to Obtain Publications

This chapter provides information on how and where to obtain publications.

Pesticide Registration Manual: Chapter 8 - Inert Ingredients

This chapter describes how EPA reviews inert ingredients as part of the pesticide product review process.

Metam Sodium and Metam Potassium Fumigant Management Plan Phase 2 Templates

These templates provide a framework for structuring and reporting a plan for this type of pesticide product. Required data fields include application block size, buffer zone signage, soil conditions, and tarp plans.

Agency Response to Greenpeace International on Petition about Regulation of Bt

Agency response to Greenpeace International related to the registration and use of genetically engineered plants expressing bacillus thuringienses endotoxins.

EPA Proposes New Protections for Communities from Fuels Made Using Plastic Waste Based Feedstocks

Buffer Zone Fact Sheets

New requirements for buffer zones and sign posting contribute to soil fumigant mitigation and protection for workers and bystanders. The buffer provides distance between the pesticide application site and bystanders, reducing exposure risk.

TSCA CBI Security Manual

Obtaining and adhering to TSCA CBI clearance procedures.

Fumigant Management Plan - Phase 1 Templates

FMPs are required by pesticide labels, so EPA provides chemical-specific soil fumigant templates and samples in PDF and Word formats. Choose the appropriate template for products containing chloropicrin, dazomet, metam sodium/potassium, or methyl bromide.