EPA Requests Comments on Nanomaterials Used in Pesticides
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued Federal Register notice seeking comment on several possible approaches for obtaining information about what nanoscale materials are present in registered pesticide products and their potential effects on humans or the environment. EPA is also proposing a new approach for how EPA will determine on a case-by-case basis whether a nanoscale active or inert ingredient is a “new” active or inert ingredient for purposes of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Pesticide registration Improvement Act (PRIA), even when an identical, non-nanoscale form of the nanoscale ingredient is already registered. Comments are due by July 18, 2011.
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(See ITT's Online Archives or 06/13/11 news, 11061311, for BP summary of EPA announcing that it plans to obtain information on nanoscale materials in pesticide products to determine their potential effects on the environment and human health.)