#SESAME OIL INSECTICIDES AND PESTICIDES REGISTRATION#

2000 – Voluntary Agreement to Eliminate, Phase Out and Modify Certain Uses

The following timeline summarizes the work EPA has done to ensure that, as science and technology evolve, registered chlorpyrifos products remain safe for use.

#SESAME OIL INSECTICIDES AND PESTICIDES REGISTRATION#

Since its first registration in 1965, chlorpyrifos has been reviewed several times by EPA for tolerance reassessment, reregistration, and most recently, as part of its ongoing registration review. The current chlorpyrifos labels require workers handling and applying chlorpyrifos to wear additional personal protective equipment (chemical resistant gloves, coveralls, respirators). The key to ensuring that the pesticide will not cause unreasonable adverse effects is for all users to read and closely follow the label directions. In accordance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA only registers a pesticide when it determines that it will not cause unreasonable adverse effects on humans or the environment, while considering the economic, social, and environmental costs and benefits of the use of the pesticide. EPA reviews and approves label directions to ensure that pesticides can be used without posing unreasonable adverse effects to the environment, including ensuring that the use will not result in dietary risk inconsistent with the FFDCA safety standard. Non-food products are sold as liquids, granules, water-dispersible granules, wettable powders, and water-soluble packets, and may be applied by ground equipment. Non-agricultural, non-food uses are unaffected by the final tolerance rule, but will be considered as EPA completes its registration review of this chemical. Therefore, chlorpyrifos application to food commodities results in food being considered adulterated distribution of adulterated food in interstate commerce is unlawful under the FFDCA. 28, 2022, all chlorpyrifos tolerances will expire pursuant to the final rule. Read EPA's statement.Ĭhlorpyrifos has been used as a pesticide since 1965 in both agricultural and non-agricultural areas. The Agency continues to work towards processing the remaining requests submitted by a majority of registrants for voluntary cancellation, use termination, and related label amendments to conform chlorpyrifos registrations with the fact that tolerances have been revoked. 14, 2022, EPA issued a Notice of Intent to Cancel three chlorpyrifos pesticide products because they bear labeling for use on food. 28, 2022, and requesting registrants act to cancel these uses. In addition, the Agency issued letters to the registrants of chlorpyrifos for products with registered food uses confirming that tolerances expired as of Feb. 25, 2022, EPA released a response denying the objections, requests for hearing, and stay requests filed on the final rule revoking all “tolerances” for chlorpyrifos, which establish an amount of a pesticide that is allowed on food. Chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate insecticide, acaricide and miticide used primarily to control foliage and soil-borne insect pests.

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