This week, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) released a Notice of Emergency Rule Making For Registration Fee Increase and Responses to Public Comments to increase California registration fees to the below table effective October 1, 2024. DPR will submit this emergency notice to the Office of Administrative Law on September 12, 2024 with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
UPDATE: The following increases to registration fees for the California Department of Pesticide Regulation will go into effect no later than 10/01/2024. Earlier this year the California Governor unveiled a proposal to increase the pesticide mill assessment, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s (DPR) primary funding source. The proposal has gone through many revisions [...]
On May 9, 2024, the Ohio Department of Agriculture released a new online database submission portal (OHID) for pesticide product registration. In addition to the release of this portal, Ohio has announced other major changes to its registration process that are now in effect and require immediate action. Renewal Registrations In an effort to move [...]
Per California Notice 2024-09, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) held a webinar to discuss their proposed increase in pesticide registration fees. The fees will increase in two stages over their next two fiscal years. In support of the fee increases, DPR is citing the need to support current and future business functions of [...]
Recently the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) announced that in 2024, the state's regulators will conduct a review of approved adjuvant labels and require registrants to update their product labels to meet the current labeling requirements in the state. Additionally, last year, the Maine Board of Pesticides Control and Maryland Department of Agriculture changed [...]
The Kansas Department of Agriculture has recently started enforcing a state multipack policy based on interpretation of their pesticide law. Moving forward, Kansas will require all new multipack configurations to be registered separately from the individual brand name registrations with the standard $150 fee per antimicrobial multipack ($180 fee per multipack for products not classified [...]