US EPA rejects objections against chlorpyrifos tolerance revocation

摘要

The US EPA has issued an order denying objections filed against its move to revoke food tolerances of the insecticide, chlorpyrifos, alongside pleas seeking consideration of such objections, and requests to impose a stay on the final rule. The tolerances are set to expire today, six months after the Agency's decision was published in the country's official gazette, the Federal Register, in August last year. A ban was slapped on uses of the active ingredient in food crops earlier that month.