It’s hard to believe how quickly quarter 4 is approaching! Over 40 U.S. states and territories have pesticide product registration renewal deadlines between September 15th and December 31st. Our 7 SRC State Registration Specialists are preparing to process renewals for over 3,000 pesticide products over the next four months. As we prepare for this renewal [...]
Last week EPA released Bilingual Labeling Questions & Answers on its website to aid registrants in adding Spanish to their product labels. PRIA 5 requires all agricultural and restricted use non-agricultural pesticides to provide Spanish translation of key labeling information either on the container label or via a scannable link on the product label. Antimicrobials [...]
UPDATE: The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) has released a California Notice to Stakeholders, stating the launch of the California Pesticide Electronic Submission Tracking (CalPEST) system has been delayed until September 24, 2024. This delay will allow DPR time to correct functionality and security issues discovered during final testing and launch preparations. Please see [...]
In 2021, the Office of the Indiana State Chemist (OISC) state agencies began an audit of all registered Minimum Risk 25(b) Pesticide products to ensure they met the requirements outlined in AAPCO FIFRA 25(b) Workgroup guidance documents. To comply with this audit, all registrants were required to provide a market label, Confidential Statement of Formula (CSF), [...]
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has ended its Agrichemical Cleanup Program (ACCP) fee holiday for non-household and minimum risk 25(b) exempt pesticides. This change will increase the Wisconsin product registration fee from $500 to $515 per product. The $15 fee increase for “non-household” pesticides will take effect with renewal season [...]
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published the final rule on May 20, 2024, to amend the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS or HazCom) in 29 CFR 1910.1200. Amendments to the HCS will mostly align with the 7th Revision (and some parts of the 8th Revision) of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling [...]
Upcoming Deadlines July 1, 2024 Product listings and facility registrations for cosmetic products under the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 (MoCRA) must be completed by July 1, 2024. These filings can be made online in the FDA Cosmetics Direct portal. FDA has released a user guide to assist responsible parties in signing up and [...]
On March 9, 2022, the State of Indiana released new and updated policies on its website for pesticide product registrations. These five documents include very important changes to the Indiana pesticide registration process. This article breaks down the new information provided in these policies and how it may affect your product registrations. Conditional Registration Policy [...]
The Oregon Department of Agriculture has recently updated its guidance on the registration of “Readily Distinguishable” Pesticide Products. The guidance states that “every pesticide product that is readily distinguishable from any other pesticide product requires a separate registration” in the state of Oregon. Specific examples on what the state defines as “readily distinguishable” are now [...]
Effective January 1st, 2022, the Missouri Department of Agriculture implemented a more thorough review of all revised labels submitted in the state to determine if significant changes were made to the label. SRC reported in our State Newsletter on 10/18/2021, that if this review finds that significant changes were made, then a new registration and [...]