Drift, Drones and Aerial Pesticide Label Decisions

摘要

The requirement for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reregister pesticide active ingredients per the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act every 15 years moves along at its circular pace. NAAA's communications and meetings with the agency and chemical companies continue to ensure aerial uses remain on labels with no unnecessary and burdensome restrictions. Meetings with policymakers now carry on remotely or "virtually." However, the outcome of all of this will be very real for aerial applicators. In this remote environment, an interesting regulatory intersection lies ahead for us. This aerial labeling intersection involves drift modeling and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), referred to as RPAAS-remotely piloted aerial application systems-by the operators controlling them on the ground.