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Methyl Bromide Buffer Zone Distances for Commodity and Structural Fumigation: Active Aeration, Open Area Vertical Stacks, 8 Hours or Less, 5 Foot Stack Height
This document contains buffer zone tables required by certain methyl bromide commodity fumigant product labels that refer to Buffer Zone Lookup Tables located at epa.gov/pesticide-registration/mbcommoditybuffer on the label.
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Methyl Bromide Buffer Zone Distances for Commodity and Structural Fumigation: Active Aeration, Open Area Vertical Stacks, 8 Hours or Less, 10 Foot Stack Height
This document contains buffer zone tables required by certain methyl bromide commodity fumigant product labels that refer to Buffer Zone Lookup Tables located at epa.gov/pesticide-registration/mbcommoditybuffer on the label.
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Methyl Bromide Buffer Zone Distances for Commodity and Structural Fumigation: Active Aeration, Attached Vertical Stacks, More than 8 hours, 50 Foot Stack Height
This document contains buffer zone tables required by certain methyl bromide commodity fumigant product labels that refer to Buffer Zone Lookup Tables located at epa.gov/pesticide-registration/mbcommoditybuffer on the label.
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Methyl Bromide Buffer Zone Distances for Commodity and Structural Fumigation: Treatment Longer than 8 Hours
This document contains buffer zone tables required by certain methyl bromide commodity fumigant product labels that refer to Buffer Zone Lookup Tables located at epa.gov/pesticide-registration/mbcommoditybuffer on the label.
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Methyl Bromide Buffer Zone Distances for Commodity and Structural Fumigation: Active Aeration, No Stack, More than 8 Hours
This document contains buffer zone tables required by certain methyl bromide commodity fumigant product labels that refer to Buffer Zone Lookup Tables located at epa.gov/pesticide-registration/mbcommoditybuffer on the label.
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Methyl Bromide Buffer Zone Distances for Commodity and Structural Fumigation: Active Aeration, Attached Vertical Stacks, 8 Hours or Less, 10 Foot Stack Height
This document contains buffer zone tables required by certain methyl bromide commodity fumigant product labels that refer to Buffer Zone Lookup Tables located at epa.gov/pesticide-registration/mbcommoditybuffer on the label.
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Review Process for the Registration and Use Directions for Floor Wipe Towelette Products
This guidance provides Antimicrobials Division staff with guidance related to the registration requirements and use directions for pre-saturated/impregnated floor wipe towelette products. This document will be used for new and existing wipe registrations.
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PRN 96-2: Changes to Child-Resistant Packaging (CRP) Testing Requirements
This pesticide registration notice announced revisions to the effectiveness standards applicable to child-resistant packaging (CRP).
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NAFTA* Minor Use Joint Reviews
EPA and Health Canada Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) worked together to develop a registration process that will permit a regulatory decision of pesticide uses for the minor use grower communities in both countries simultaneously.
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Chlorpyrifos
Chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate insecticide, acaricide and miticide used to control foliage and soil-borne insect pests on a variety of food and feed crops.
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Frequently Asked Questions about the Current Status of Chlorpyrifos and Anticipated Path Forward
EPA’s 2021 rule revoking chlorpyrifos tolerances was challenged by a chlorpyrifos registrant and several grower groups in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
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DDT - A Brief History and Status
DDT was the first of the modern synthetic insecticides, developed in the 1940s. It helped control diseases such as typhus and malaria. Enviromental concerns led to its cancellation in the 1970s. It still has limited indoor use in Africa to prevent malaria.
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The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act - Law & Summary Information
The new law includes much needed modernizations to TSCA, the only major piece of environmental legislation that had not been updated since it was passed in the fall of 1976.
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ChemView User Interface Guide
A guide for users of the ChemView database system.
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Fact Sheet: Assessing Risks from Flame Retardants
EPA's assessing and managing risk programs address pollution prevention, risk assessment, hazard and exposure assessment and/or characterization, and risk management for chemicals substances in commercial use.
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The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act: Frequent Questions
Frequent questions for the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (TSCA21).
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Prepublication Version of the Comment Period Extension for the Proposed PBT Rule Under TSCA Section 6(h)
Prepublication version of an EPA Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
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Pre-publication version of Proposed Rule on Regulation of Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals Under TSCA Section 6(h)
Prepublication version of an EPA Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
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Fact Sheet: Methylene Chloride or Dichloromethane (DCM)
Frequently asked questions for Methylene Chloride or Dichloromethane (DCM).
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Public Meeting - Reviewing New Chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act
Presentation materials for the December 14, 2016 Public Meeting - Reviewing New Chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act