Volume 6, Number 1
February 16, 1996
Volume 6, Number 1
February 16, 1996
The intent of this network is to inform interested parties of recent or impending pesticide use cancellations, tolerance revocations, and other items of agricultural interest. To the best of our knowledge, the uses mentioned here, unless otherwise indicated, will not appear on any label registered by the USEPA after those uses are canceled. We recommend that you express any concerns or questions you have to the contact mentioned below or to your NAPIAP State Liaison Representative. If you wish to contact us at USDA, our phone number is 301-504-8846, our fax number is 301-504-8063, and our email address is ksmith@asrr.arsusda.gov.
The USEPA has issued a notice to explain and reaffirm its long-held policy, the pesticide coodination policy, of coordinating food safety regulations under FFDCA with pesticide registration under FIFRA. This significantly impacts implementation of the Delaney clause. This decision completes the USEPA's response to the 1992 Delaney-related petition by the National Food Processors and others which asked, in part, that the USEPA's policy of linking processed and raw food pesticide tolerances be discontinued. In place since 1963, the coordination policy is designed to ensure that the lawful use of pesticides by farmers will not result in unlawful residues in processed food or feed. As a consequence of this policy and the Delaney clause, some pesticide tolerances are expected to be revoked and the pesticide registrations on which they are based are expected to be cancelled. Last year, EPA conducted an economic impact assessment as to potential impacts on agricultural producers as a result of continuation of this policy without change. The assessment concluded that the total economic impact on affected producers could be as high as $500 million. Only three crops were estimated to incur impacts greater that 5 percent of their annual 1989-91 U.S. production value (PINEAPPLE 29%, SUGARCANE 13%, and GRAPES 5.1%). Absolute projected impacts were highest for SUGARCANE, GRAPES, POTATOES, RICE, and APPLES, which together comprised about 70% of total impacts projected. For various reasons, however, the assessment was based on a worst-case scenario and actual impacts are expected by EPA to be far less. EPA will update its economic impact analysis when it evaluates remaining uses potentially affected by the Delaney clause.
For additional information contact:
Ms. Jean M. Frane
EPA, Policy and Special Projects
Phone 703-305-5944
Fax 703-305-6244
Email frane.jean@epamail.epa.gov
Source: Federal Register 61(17):2378 1/25/96
The USEPA has issued a notice to explain its interpretation of the term "raw agricultural commodity (RAC)" as applied to dried agricultural commodities under FFDCA. This notice on the RAC policy is prompted indirectly by the Delaney clause which prohibits the establishment or maintenance of tolerances for a cancer causing pesticide in processed food, but does not prohibit such tolerances in raw food. Therefore, the classification of a commodity as a RAC or processed food is important. The USEPA's interpretation of RACs as applied to dried commodities is based primarily on the purpose of drying rather than the means or degree of drying. Commodities which routinely are dried for the purpose of storage or transportation are to be considered RACs and those dried to create a new product are to be considered processed, thus, hay, grain, and nuts would be treated as raw food, whereas dried fruits such as raisins would be treated as processed food. This interpretation will not change the current classification of any dried commodities.
For additional information contact:
Ms. Jean M. Frane
EPA, Policy and Special Projects
Phone 703-305-5944
Fax 703-305-6244
frane.jean@epamail.epa.gov
Source: Federal Register 61(17):2386 1/25/96
The Captan Task Force has petitioned the USEPA requesting the revocation of the food additive regulation for captan residues in or on washed RAISINS. They feel that a processing study they submitted shows that captan residues do not concentrate in raisins above the level of the 408 tolerances for captan on grapes. There is no registered postharvest use of captan. The USEPA is asking for comments from the public. Copies of the petition can be obtained from the Public Response Branch of EPA. Written comments, identified by PF-645, should be sent to the Public Response Branch of EPA by March 1, 1996.
For information contact:
Ms. Niloufar Nazmi
EPA, Special Review Branch
Phone 703-308-8028
Fax 703-308-8041
nazmi.niloufar@epamail.epa.gov
Copies and written comments:
Public Response Branch (7506C)
EPA, Office of Pesticide Prog.
401 M Street, SW
Washington, DC 20460
opp-docket@epamail.epa.gov
Source: Federal Register 61(21):3401 1/31/96
During reregistration, the Cryolite Task Force plans to defend certain uses of cryolite, support others in cooperation with IR-4, and leave some uses unsupported. The unsupported uses are being dropped primarily because the cost of reregistration exceeds expected returns. The primary registrants may consider maintaining some of these unsupported uses if another party is willing to develop the necessary data. The final RED (reregistration eligibility document) is expected from the USEPA in May of 1996.
SUPPORTED USES EXPECTED TO BE REREGISTERED:
Supported by registrants: APRICOTS, BROCCOLI, BRUSSELS SPROUTS, CABBAGE, CAULIFLOWER, CITRUS, CUCUMBERS, EGGPLANT, GRAPES, KIWIFRUIT, KOHLRABI, LETTUCE, MELONS, NECTARINES, PEACHES, PEARS, PEPPERS, PLUMS, POTATOES, PUMPKINS, SQUASHES, and TOMATOES
Supported by IR-4: BLACKBERRIES, BLUEBERRIES, BOYSENBERRIES, CRANBERRIES, DEWBERRIES, LOGANBERRIES, RASPBERRIES, STRAWBERRIES, and YOUNGBERRIES
UNSUPPORTED USES LIKELY TO BE CANCELLED: APPLES, BEANS, COLLARDS, MUSTARD, RADISHES, and TURNIPS
For additional information contact IR-4 (addresses below) or:
Ms. Elizabeth Codrea
Gowan Company
Phone 602-783-8844
Fax 602-343-9255
or
Mr. Chris Davis
ELF Atochem North America, Inc.
Phone 215-419-7147
Fax 215-419-7243
Source: IR-4 Correspondence
Ciba Crop Protection has reached a decision about which registered uses of diazinon it will defend during reregistration, those to be supported in cooperation with IR-4, and those left unsupported. Some uses of this insecticide cannot be maintained because of dietary concerns, such as livestock-related uses and infant foods. However, other uses remain unsupported because the cost of reregistration does not justify continued registration. The following unsupported uses will be removed from labels by August 31, 1996, after which products with these unsupported uses may not be sold or distributed, although use of products as labeled may continue. Ciba may consider maintaining some of these unsupported uses if another party is willing to develop the necessary data. EPA's RED on diazinon is expected to be available in 1997.
SUPPORTED USES EXPECTED TO BE REREGISTERED:
Supported by Ciba: ALMONDS (CA), ANIMAL QUARTERS (except DAIRY BARNS, MILK ROOMS & POULTRY HOUSES), APPLES, APRICOTS, BANANAS (import tolerance - no label in U.S.), BARNS (except DAIRY BARNS, MILK ROOMS & POULTRY HOUSES), BARRIER STRIPS, BEANS (succulent LIMA, POLE, and SNAP, including seed trmt), BEETS(RED), BLACKBERRIES (WA,OR & CA), BOYSENBERRIES (WA,OR & CA), BROCCOLI, BRUSSELS SPROUTS, CABBAGE, CANTALOUPE, CARROTS, CASABAS, CAULIFLOWER, CELERY, CHERRIES, CHINESE BROCCOLI, CHINESE CABBAGE, CHINESE MUSTARD, CHINESE RADISH (CA & FL), COLLARDS, CORN(FIELD) (seed trmt), CRENSHAWS, CUCUMBERS, DEWBERRIES (WA,OR & CA), DITCH BANKS, ENDIVE, FOOD HANDLING ESTABLISHMENTS, GINSENG, GRAPES, HONEYDEW MELONS, HOPS, KIWIFRUIT (import tolerance - no label in U.S.), LETTUCE, LOGANBERRIES (WA,OR & CA), MUSKMELONS, MUSTARD, NECTARINES, ONIONS(GREEN & BULB), ORNAMENTALS, PARSLEY, PARSNIPS, PEACHES, PEARS, PEAS (succulent including seed trmt), PEPPERS, PINEAPPLES, PLUMS, POTATOES, PRUNES, RADISHES, RASPBERRIES (WA,OR & CA), ROADSIDES, RUTABAGA, SHEEP, SPINACH, SQUASH(SUMMER), SQUASH(WINTER), STRAWBERRIES, SUGARBEETS, SWEET CORN, SWEET POTATOES, SWISS CHARD, TOMATOES, TURF (other than golf courses and sod farms), TURNIPS, WALNUTS (CA), and WATERMELONS
Supported by IR-4: BLUEBERRIES, CRANBERRIES, FIGS (no label yet), FILBERTS (no label yet), MUSHROOM HOUSES, and WATERCRESS (24c in HI)
UNSUPPORTED USES LIKELY TO BE CANCELED: ALFALFA, BANANAS, BEANS(dried), BERMUDAGRASS, CITRUS FRUITS, CLOVER, CORN(FIELD) (except seed trmt), COTTON, COWPEAS, GRASS FORAGE, GUAR, LESPEDEZA, OLIVES, PASTURES, PEANUTS, PEAS(dried), PECANS, RANGELAND, SORGHUM, SOYBEANS, TREFOIL, and TOBACCO
For additional information contact:
Ms. Carolyn Bussey
Ciba Crop Protection
Phone 910-632-2838
Fax 910-292-6374
Email uscgcrr3@ibmmail.com
IR-4 (send requests for support to the appropriate IR-4 regional office listed below)
Source: IR-4 Correspondence
For assistance in defending unsupported food or ornamental crop uses of cryolite or diazinon, please contact the appropriate IR-4 office:
NORTHEASTERN REGION
Mr. John Martini, Reg. Coord.
NE Regional Pesticide Laboratory
NYSAES -- Cornell University
Geneva, NY 14456
Phone 315-787-2308
Fax 315-787-2397
NORTHCENTRAL REGION
Dr. S. Miyazaki, Reg. Coord.
Pesticide Research Center
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1311
Phone 517-353-9497
Fax 517-353-5598
WESTERN REGION
Mr. Rick Melnicoe, Reg. Coord.
Dept. of Environ. Toxicology
University of California
Davis, CA 95616-8588
Phone 916-752-7633
Fax 916-752-2866
SOUTHERN REGION
Dr. C. Meister, Reg. Coord.
Institute of Food & Agric. Sci.
Pesticide Research Laboratory
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-0531
Phone 904-392-2399
Fax 904-392-1988
The USEPA has revoked the food additive regulation(FAR) for residues of the herbicide trifluralin inpeppermint oil and spearmint oil as of January 26, 1996. EPAis taking this action because these are no longer viewed as ready-to-eat commodities, and residues of trifluralin are not likely to concentrate in ready-to-eat foods containing them. Therefore, this FAR in not necessary. This action will not affect the use of trifluralin on mint. The proposal for this revocation was published here on August 9, 1995. Comments, with mention of OPP-300394A, should be sent to the Public Response Branch of EPA by March 11, 1996.
For information contact:
Ms. Niloufar Nazmi
EPA, Special Review Branch
Phone 703-308-8028
Fax 703-308-8041
nazmi.niloufar@epamail.epa.gov
Send written comments to:
Public Response Branch (7506C)
EPA, Office of Pesticide Prog.
401 M Street, SW
Washington, DC 20460
opp-docket@epamail.epa.gov
Source: Federal Register 61(18):2446 1/26/96
The Reregistration Notification Network is a cooperative effort of
USDA-NAPIAP, Interregional Project No. 4 (IR-4), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (USEPA), and the American Crop Protection
Association (ACPA).
Last Modified February 4, 1998