By Heather Cooper •
Plant and Pest Advisory – Janine Spies – August 14, 2024 The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released their proposed interim registrationreview decision for mancozeb in July 2024. The proposed changes include a cancellation of all uses ingrape (table, wine, juice, and raisin) along with other label changes to address spray drift and soil […]
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by Pat Hastings Note: The official notice can be viewed at in the March 15, 2024 Plant and Pest Advisory or checkout the EPA Chlorpyrifos website highlighted below for more details. For growers, this notice reaffirms that, at this time, all the chlorpyrifos tolerances have beenreinstated and are currently in effect, and products can be […]
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plant-pest-advisory.rutgers.edu/update-on-xtend-specific-dicamba-products-registration On February 6, 2024, the U.S. District Court of Arizona vacated the registrations of threedicamba products (Engenia 5L, Xtendimax 2.9L, and Tavium 3.39CS) labeled for over-the-top use in Xtend and XtendFlex soybean systems. After several days of uncertainty, we now have guidance from the EPA about use of these products in the 2024 growing […]
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Pat Hastings Questions? Email: pdh@njaes.rutgers.edu or by phone at 848-932-0176 In 2015 the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revised its Worker Protection Standard (WPS) at40 CFR 170.507 (b)(10) and adopted a subset of OSHA’s Standard for Respiratory Protection (29 CFR1910.134). EPA’s revised rule cross references and requires compliance with the OSHA standards formedical evaluation, fit […]
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Pat Hastings; Plant and Pest Advisory [Released by EPA 11/15/2023]. The U.S. Environmental Protection agency is requesting feedback on itsplan to adopt digital pesticide labels that will make labeling information clearer, more consistent, and more accessible to users. The Agency is specifically requesting feedback on the proposed organization of digital labels and the proposed phases […]