[fullwidth background_color=”” background_image=”” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_webm=”” video_mp4=”” video_ogv=”” video_preview_image=”” overlay_color=”” overlay_opacity=”0.5″ video_mute=”yes” video_loop=”yes” fade=”no” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”” padding_top=”20″ padding_bottom=”20″ padding_left=”0″ padding_right=”0″ hundred_percent=”no” equal_height_columns=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” menu_anchor=”” class=”” id=””][title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”underline solid” sep_color=”#000000″ margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” class=”” id=””]EPA proposes to revoke food tolerances for the widely used insecticide chlorpyrifos[/title][fusion_text]Thursday, December 7th 2016
EPA’s proposal to revoke food tolerances for the widely used insecticide chlorpyrifos resulted in predictably different reactions from the crop protection industry and environmental groups. Tuesday was the deadline for comments on EPA’s Nov. 6 proposal to revoke tolerances for chlorpyrifos, which is known by a variety of trade names, including Dursban and Lorsban. On Dec. 10, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the agency to make a final decision by the end of 2016. That order followed an opinion issued by the court in August that said “EPA’s ambiguous plan to possibly issue a proposed rule nearly nine years after receiving (environmental groups’) administrative petition is too little, too late.” The court called the delay “egregious.” The Natural Resources Defense Council and Pesticide Action Network North America petitioned EPA in 2007 to revoke the tolerances. In its proposal, EPA said it could not determine that “aggregate exposure to residues of chlorpyrifos, including all anticipated dietary exposures and all other non-occupational exposures for which there is reliable information, are safe.”
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