US: Industry unconvinced by EPA's minimum risk pesticide exemption plan

摘要

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s planned revisions to a rule that exempts minimum risk pesticides from the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) are well intended but appear overly restrictive and could impose unnecessary burdens on manufacturers, key industry groups say in comments filed with the agency. The proposal, announced late last year, is a bid by EPA to deal with the controversy and frustration around many minimum risk pesticides, an array of products that include citric acid, garlic oil, rosemary, cedar oil and mint oil.