California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) has released California Notice CA 2022-12 - Application Return Policy for Pesticide Product Registrations and Amendments, setting a new timeframe for responding to applications that are incomplete, inaccurate, or missing the required application fee. The Policy This policy will go into effect on July 1st, 2022 and will limit [...]
Many news organizations have recently released articles related to a string of Monkeypox cases in the U.S and abroad. Over the weekend, The World Health Organization announced that as of May 21st there were 92 confirmed cases of the Monkeypox virus spread over 12 member states that are not endemic for the virus. All confirmed [...]
In January 2020, EPA responded quickly to the COVID-19 pandemic by triggering its Emerging Viral Pathogens Guidance allowing registrants who provide data against a harder to kill virus to make marketing claims against the SARS-CoV-2. Shortly after, EPA created List N: Disinfectants for Use Against SARS-CoV-2 to assist consumers with finding products effective against the virus. [...]
On July 07, 2020, EPA released a new guidance expediting review of label amendments for List N products adding electrostatic spray (ESS) application to the Directions for Use. Under this guidance EPA will try to reduce Pesticide Registration Improvement Act (PRIA) review timelines by 1-2 months. SRC received additional guidance from EPA on July 24, [...]
In July, the U.S. EPA triggered their Emerging Viral Pathogen Policy (EVP) for the second time since the policy’s creation, to allow for off label claims against RHDV2. Though not a threat to human health or other domestic animals, this virus is highly contagious and has an 80-90% fatality rate in rabbits. RHVD2 was first [...]
On October 9, 2019, Executive Order 13891 “Promoting the Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance Documents” was issued requiring agencies, including the U.S. EPA, to make available “on its website a single, searchable, indexed database with links to all guidance documents in effect.” The order also dictates each agency must create their own procedure [...]