EPA Sued Over Nano Pesticide Registration

摘要

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) faced tough questioning from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on January 16 over its decision to conditionally approve a pesticide product containing nanosilver as the active ingredient. In arguments over whether EPA lawfully granted conditional registration of HeiQ AGS-20, the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) challenged the agency's risk assessment for infants and children. NRDC says that the agency erred by assuming that 3-year-olds would be the most vulnerable consumers in its risk assessment, when infants are more likely than any other subgroup to chew on fabrics that could contain this pesticide.