EPA Announces They Successfully Received Mail About Pesticide Rules
Published Date: 1/13/2025
Proposed Rule
Summary
The EPA just got a new petition asking to set or change rules about pesticide leftovers on different foods. Farmers, food makers, and pesticide companies should pay attention because these changes could affect what’s allowed on crops and products. You’ve got until February 12, 2025, to share your thoughts, so don’t miss your chance to speak up!
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 3 mixed.
Chlorate Tolerance Exemption Expanded
CA TriNova, LLC asked EPA to amend the existing exemption at 40 CFR 180.1364 so that residues of chlorate from gaseous chlorine dioxide would be exempt from the requirement of a tolerance (without any numerical limit) for many crop groups including Crop Group 1 (root and tuber vegetables), 3 (bulb vegetables), 8 (fruiting vegetables), 9 (cucurbit vegetables), 10 (citrus), 11 (pome fruits), 12 (stone fruits), 13 (berries), 14 (tree nuts), 16 (forage/fodder/straw of cereal grains), 17 (grass forage/fodder/hay), 18 (non-grass animal feeds), 21 (edible fungi), 23 (tropical/subtropical fruits, edible peel), and 24 (tropical/subtropical fruits, inedible peel). The petitioner states no analytical method is needed because the exemption would have no numerical limitation.
Proposal to Remove Bifenthrin Tolerances
IR-4 (PP 3E9078; docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2023-0555) requests that EPA amend 40 CFR 180.442 by removing established tolerances for residues of bifenthrin (including metabolites/degradates) on specified commodities: Brassica head and stem subgroup 5A (except cabbage) at 0.6 ppm; cotton, undelinted seed at 0.5 ppm; leafy petioles subgroup 4B at 3.0 ppm; pea and bean dried shelled subgroup 6C at 0.15 ppm; pea and bean succulent shelled subgroup 6B at 0.05 ppm; rapeseed seed at 0.05 ppm; and vegetable, legume, edible podded subgroup 6A at 0.6 ppm.
Request to Remove Permethrin Tolerances
IR-4 (PP 4E9106; docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0201) asks EPA to amend 40 CFR 180.378 by removing established tolerances for permethrin (sum of cis- and trans- isomers) on listed raw agricultural commodities: corn, field, grain at 0.05 ppm; corn, pop, grain at 0.05 ppm; corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husks removed at 0.10 ppm; leafy greens subgroup 4A at 20 ppm; lettuce, head at 20 ppm; and spinach at 20 ppm.
EPA Notice: Petition & Comment Deadline
The EPA announced it received a pesticide petition under FFDCA section 408 asking to set or change residue rules for pesticides on food and is taking public comments through February 12, 2025. The agency says agricultural producers, food manufacturers, and pesticide manufacturers may be affected and lists NAICS codes 111, 112, 311, and 32532 as examples.
Exemption Request for L‑Arginine as an Inert
D. O'Shaughnessy Consulting, on behalf of A&L Biological, Inc. (PP IN-11881; docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0347) requests that EPA establish an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of L-Arginine (CAS Reg. No. 74-79-3) when used as an inert ingredient (protein stabilizer) in pesticide formulations applied to the raw agricultural commodity pre-bloom greenhouse cucumber under 40 CFR 180.920.
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