EPA pesticide use reports draw on NASS survey results, a number of proprietary pesticide use datasets, and pesticide production and use data submitted by registrants, or collected during the course of a regulatory review of a given pesticide.
CropLife America, a pesticide industry group, had petitioned the EPA this year out of concern that "unnecessary and redundant testing" could occur if the agency doesn't review data already submitted by pesticide registrants.
The U.S. EPA already has access to considerable data underlying studies submitted by pesticide registrants that it uses in regulatory decisions regarding pesticides.
The reference database could also be integrated into a tool similar to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ArrayTrack to allow regulatory agencies to easily manage, analyze, and interpret omics data submitted by registrants or other government or academic laboratories using similar ecological species, testing protocols, and microarray, proteomic, or metabolomic platforms.
In 1998, the registrant of fonofos voluntarily cancelled its registration (U.S. EPA 1999).
Submitted by Bonnie Zanardi of Whittier.
The substance evaluation has only started in 2012 and the first draft decisions on information requirements have been submitted to the registrants.
In the case of glyphosate-containing products, this phenomenon was well demonstrated in the data submitted to the (EPA) by the registrant (Monsanto), and summarized by the U.S. EPA in the Reregistration Eligibility Document (RED) for glyphosate (U.S. EPA 1993).
"The proposed rule requires that a proposal be submitted by a shareholder or group that owns more than five percent of a registrant's stock in order to be included in the proxy, which would effectively bar most shareholders from ever filing such proposals.
For regulatory testing, the decision on waiving of testing can be proposed by the registrant and has to be justified.
