Learn the Issues
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Comment Period for Interim Guidance on Residual Efficacy Claims Now Open
EPA publishes interim guidance on registering products that claim to have "residual" or "long-lasting" against viruses is now available for public comment until January 4th.
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Farmworker Training and Education Program for Pesticide Safety
EPA is accepting applications from community-based farmworker nonprofit organizations with experience in training agricultural workers or pesticide handlers or developing educational materials for Pesticide Safety.
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Reports Available: Executive Order 14081
The EPA is seeking public comment on the National Marine Fisheries Service’s opinion for the insecticides carbaryl and methomyl.
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Pesticides Health Care Initiative
EPA is accepting applications from nonprofit organizations with experience training health care providers for a 5 year cooperative agreement to improve health care providers’ ability to prevent, recognize, treat, manage, & report pesticide-related illness.
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Grant Technical Assistance Program
EPA is accepting applications from nonprofit organizations for a cooperative agreement of up to $1.47 million to provide technical assistance with grants administration and compliance for recipients of agreements under two pesticide safety programs.
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EPA Awards $3 Million to Support Pesticide Inspector Residential Training Program
EPA has appointed a new chair and two new members and reappointed two current members to serve on the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP).
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Notice to Certain Pesticides Data Submitters on Disclosure of Documents in Support of Litigation
EPA is notifying affected businesses that EPA is disclosing documents regarding the pesticides dicamba, 2,4-D, and glyphosate to the court and the parties as part of the Administrative Record in the matter of National Family Farm Coalition, et al. v. U.S.
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EPA Releases Neonicotinoid Assessments for Public Comment
Release of preliminary ecological and human health risk assessments for the neonicotinoid insecticides clothianidin, thiamethoxam, and dinotefuran, and a preliminary ecological risk assessment for imidacloprid, assessing risks to birds,mammals, non-target
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Prospective Ad Hoc Participants and Preparatory Virtual Meeting for the December 4-7, 2018 FIFRA SAP Meeting
Prospective Ad Hoc Participants and Preparatory Virtual Meeting for the December 4-7, 2018 FIFRA SAP Meeting
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EPA Decreases Annual Pesticide Registration Maintenance Fees
Notification informing pesticide registrants of a decrease in the annual pesticide registration maintenance fee. The fee for 2022 is $3,660 per product, an 8.5% decrease from the previous year.
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EPA Releases New Interactive Maps of Data Used in Endangered Species Act Assessments
The Environmental Protection Agency has released new maps for endangered species assessments.
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EPA Publishes New Webpage to Answer Frequently Asked Questions on the EPA/FDA Whitepaper on Modernizing Oversight of Products for Animals Regulated as Pesticides or New Animal Drugs
The EPA is seeking public comment on the National Marine Fisheries Service’s opinion for the insecticides carbaryl and methomyl.
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EPA Holds Online Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee Meeting in October
EPA will hold an online public meeting of the Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee (PPDC)
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EPA Announces Proposed Registration of New Biopesticide and Biopesticides Webpage
new announcement on biopesticides
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PRIA 5 Gaps Analysis Report
Gaps analysis for PRIA 5
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PRIA 5 Process Assessment Report
PRIA 5 called for a third-party process assessment to evaluate and improve OPP’s operational performance
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Implementing the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act - Fiscal Year 2013
pria fees Annual Report 2013
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Collaborative Strategy on Bed Bugs
The Collaborative Strategy on Bed Bugs was developed by the Federal Bed Bug Workgroup to clarify the federal role in bed bug control and highlight ways that government, community, academia and private industry can work together on bed bug issues.
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When Treatments Don't Work
Pesticide treatment to eliminate bed bugs may be unsuccessful if other resting areas such as hampers or furniture are missed, recommended label rates of application or timeframe are not followed, or bed bugs developing resistance to the chemical.