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EPA Proposes Registration of Animal Repellents Containing New Active Ingredient
EPA is opening the 15-day comment period on a proposal to register two pesticide products containing sheep fat which is being used as a biochemical active ingredient for the first time.
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Cooperative Agreement on Pesticide Safety Education
EPA is awarding the eXtension Foundation with a cooperative agreement to establish a system to distribute EPA funds to Pesticide Safety Education Programs (PSEPs) in State Cooperative Extension Services at Land Grant Universities.
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Virtual Meeting on the Charge Questions for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP) Meeting on Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Modeling
Public meeting for Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel
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Methods and Guidance for Testing the Efficacy of Antimicrobials against Spores of Clostridium difficile
EPA has released test methods for evaluating the efficacy of antimicrobial pesticides against Clostridum difficile
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EPA Releases Draft Risk Assessments for Glyphosate
EPA is releasing for public comment the draft human health and ecological risk assessments for glyphosate, one of the most widely used agricultural pesticides in the United States.
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EPA Takes Next Step in the Review of Anthraquinone
EPA is taking the next step in the registration review process for the pesticide anthraquinone by releasing the final work plan and draft human health and ecological risk assessments.
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EPA Requests Comments on Prospective Candidates for the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel on EPA’s Proposed Guidelines for Efficacy Testing of Certain Flea and Tick Products for Pets
EPA is seeking comments on the experts who are candidates to serve as ad hoc panelists for the review of the EPA’s Proposed Guidelines for Efficacy Testing of Topically Applied Pesticides Used Against Certain Ectoparasitic Pests on Pets.
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EPA to Hold Scientific Advisory Panel on Organophosphates in September
In September 2020, EPA's OPP plans to convene a Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act SAP on activities that could inform human health risk assessment for organophosphate pesticides and reduce animal testing.
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Biofuels Webinar Series: New Chemicals Program Risk Assessments and Applications of Tools and Models
Listserv announcing biofuels webinar.
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EPA Proposes Registration of Nootkatone, A New Active Ingredient in Insect Control
EPA is seeking public comment on the proposed registration of a new active ingredient called nootkatone, which was discovered and developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and can be used as an insect repellent.
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EPA Observes National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week
Recent listserv on National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 2021
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EPA Renews Enlist Product Registrations with New Control Measures, Providing Growers with Certainty for the 2022 Growing Season
EPA is issuing seven-year registrations for two herbicide products, Enlist Duo and Enlist One, to ensure growers have access to effective pesticide tools for the 2022 growing season.
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Attend EPA’s Webinar about the Experimental Use Permit for the Oxitec Genetically Engineered Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes
On May 5, 2021, EPA will host a webinar for the public to learn about the approval of an experimental use permit (EUP) to allow Oxitec Ltd. to field test the use of genetically engineered Aedes aegypti mosquitoes as a way to reduce mosquito populations.
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EPA Addresses Ecological Risks Posed by Four Pyridines and Pyrimidines Herbicides
EPA is releasing a proposed interim decision for picloram and interim decisions for clopyralid, dithiopyr and triclopyr to address ecological risks.
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EPA Announces Opportunity to Nominate Additional Experts to Serve as Ad Hoc Members for the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel Reviewing Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Modeling
EPA is announcing opportunities to nominate additional experts as ad hoc members to FIFRA SAP reviewing physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling
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EPA Proposes Action to Protect Soybeans from Major Agricultural Pest
EPA is opening a 15-day comment period on a proposal to register Cry14Ab-1, a new plant-incorporated protectant (PIP) product that acts against the soybean cyst nematode.
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EPA Solicits Proposals for the Field Implementation Meeting Support Cooperative Agreement
EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs is soliciting applications for cooperative agreements to manage a Field Implementation Meetings Support program. EPA expects to provide up to $500,000 annually, depending on the Agency’s budget, for a total of
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Updated Human Health Risk Analyses for Chlorpyrifos
EPA has revised the human health hazard assessment and drinking water exposure assessment for chlorpyrifos that supported our October 2015 proposal to revoke all food residue tolerances for chlorpyrifos.
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Children's Environmental Health: A Workshop on Future Priorities for Environmental Health Sciences
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is hosting a free, virtual public workshop to discuss the state of science and knowledge about children's environmental health.
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Scientific Advisory Panel to Meet on Cancer Potential of Glyphosate (rescheduled meeting)
The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) has been rescheduled and will meet December 13-16, 2016 on the cancer potential of glyphosate