New Pesticide Safe for Your Dinner Plate, EPA Assures
Published Date: 2/20/2026
Rule
Summary
The EPA just set safe limits for a pesticide called inpyrfluxam on several foods, thanks to a request from Valent U.S.A., LLC. This affects farmers, food makers, and pesticide companies starting February 20, 2026. If anyone wants to object or ask for a hearing, they have until April 21, 2026, so act fast!
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 3 costs, 1 mixed.
Tolerances set for inpyrfluxam
The EPA established legal residue limits for the pesticide inpyrfluxam on specific foods effective February 20, 2026: cotton, gin byproducts 0.02 ppm; cotton, undelinted seed 0.01 ppm; rapeseed subgroup 20A 0.01 ppm; wheat forage 0.01 ppm; wheat grain 0.01 ppm; wheat hay 1.5 ppm; and wheat straw 0.3 ppm. These tolerances apply to growers, food processors, and pesticide registrants who handle or sell these commodities.
Rule effective Feb 20; objections April 21
The rule is effective February 20, 2026. If you want to object to any part of the regulation or request a hearing, you must file in writing with the EPA Hearing Clerk on or before April 21, 2026 and follow the filing instructions in 40 CFR part 178.
Rapeseed forage tolerance not established
EPA did not establish a tolerance for "rapeseed, forage" because the product label for inpyrfluxam prohibits livestock feeding and grazing of treated rapeseed forage (canola varieties only). That prohibition is finalized in this rule.
EPA: low infant exposure; no cancer risk
EPA concluded inpyrfluxam does not pose a cancer risk and that the highest exposed group (infants under 1 year) would use 6.8% of the acute population-adjusted dose (aPAD) and 2.4% of the chronic PAD (cPAD). EPA also maintained a reduced Food Quality Protection Act safety factor for infants and children.
Who may be affected: NAICS list
EPA identified potentially affected entities by NAICS codes: crop production (111), animal production (112), food manufacturing (311), and pesticide manufacturing (32532). If you operate in those industries you may be affected by these tolerances.
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