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Find Best Management Practices to Protect Pollinators

Resources and ways to reduce potential pesticide exposure to honey bees and other pollinators include new pesticide labels, neonicotinoid insecticide information, reducing dust from treated seed, and state-level efforts.

Pesticide Registration Manual: Chapter 11 - Tolerance Petitions

This Chapter provides information on definitions, interpretative regulations and procedures for filing a petition for establishment of a tolerance or an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance.

Pesticide Registration Manual: Chapter 14 - How to Obtain an EPA Company or Establishment Number or Change Address or Contact Information

This chapter provides information on how to get an establishment number for pesticide registration applicants

Pesticide Reregistration Performance Measures and Goals 1997-2008

Find past annual reports that were submitted, as required by the Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (as amended by FQPA), describing the agency's progress in meeting goals for reregistration and tolerance assessment.

Mixtures Equation Pilot Program to Reduce Animal Testing

EPA is announcing the start of a pilot program to evaluate the usefulness and acceptability of a mathematical tool (the GHS Mixtures Equation), which is used in the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS).

Pesticide Tolerance Crop Grouping Revisions

Crop groups are an important tool for growers, especially those who need pesticide options for minor uses. EPA is revising crop grouping regulations as part of a multi-year project with stakeholders.

Public Participation Process for Registration Actions

Describes the process for registration actions which provides the opportunity for the public to comment on major registration decisions at a point in the registration process when comprehensive information and analysis are available.

Pesticide Registration Manual: Appendix A - Guidance Documents

Find links to EPA guidance documents supporting the pesticide registration process.

Updated Draft Protocol for the Evaluation of Bactericidal Activity of Hard, Non-porous Copper Containing Surface Products

This document describes the updated draft testing protocol recommended by the EPA to support the registration of copper-containing surface products (such as door knobs, or other items that are not intended for food contact) that bear sanitizer claims.

Runs Better Unleaded Poster

Post on preventing childhood lead poisoning.

Test Kit Documentation - Sample Form

Sample form to document tesk kit sampling results.

Benefits of Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments to Soybean Production

Read about EPA’s analysis of use of the neonicotinoid seed treatments for insect control in U.S. soybean production. EPA concludes that these seed treatments provide little or no overall benefits to soybean production in most situations.

Pesticide Containers

The pesticide container regulations establish standards for pesticide containers, repackaging, label instructions and to ensure safe use, reuse and disposal and adequate cleaning of the containers.

Antimicrobial Testing Methods & Procedures: MB-02-08

Provides guidance for establishing receipt and expiration dates for microorganisms used in the Microbiology Laboratory Branch as well as denotation and tracking of those microorganisms.

Proposed Finding that Lead Emissions from Aircraft Engines That Operate on Leaded Fuel Cause or Contribute to Air Pollution that May Reasonably Be Anticipated to Endanger Public Health and Welfare

On October 17, 2022, EPA issued a proposed determination that lead emissions from certain aircraft cause or contribute to lead air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health and welfare under section 231(a) of the Clean Air Act