A federal court has revoked approval of the weed-killing pesticide dicamba. The ruling means farmers may not have access to the popular pesticide during the upcoming growing season.
The drift-prone pesticide has damaged millions of acres of crops and wild plants every year since the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) first
Continue Reading Federal court puts an end to agriculture use of the pesticide dicamba
The Food and Drug Administration continues using import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below.
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Continue Reading FDA tightens importation restrictions of foods with Salmonella, pesticides
The European Commission is to renew the approval of glyphosate for another 10 years.
Member states did not reach the required qualified majority to renew or reject the approval of glyphosate during a vote at the Appeal Committee this week. In October, a similar thing happened in a previous vote
Continue Reading EU Commission to renew glyphosate approval after vote deadlock
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued its annual Pesticide Residue Monitoring Program Report for the 2019 fiscal year. The results show the levels do not pose a concern for public health.
According to the FDA, the 2019 report demonstrates that the levels of pesticide chemical residues are generally
Continue Reading FDA pesticide report shows majority of food samples tested below tolerances
Dicamba, the broad-spectrum herbicide first registered for farm use in 1967, will be back for the 2021 growing season under new label restrictions from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
This past spring, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit did an immediate withdrawal of the registrations of three
Continue Reading EPA gives dicamba five more years with additional restrictions
European officials have voted not to renew the approvals of chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl.
Chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl are insecticides to control insect pests on a range of crops. Chlorpyrifos-methyl is also used to treat stored cereal grain.
This past week at a meeting of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food
Continue Reading EU votes against renewing chlorpyrifos approval
The pesticide chlorpyrifos could be banned in Europe from next year after the European Food Safety Authority said it does not meet criteria for renewal.
The approval period for the substance expires at the end of January 2020. The approval criteria are set in Article 4 of European regulation number
Continue Reading EFSA finds chlorpyrifos does not meet criteria for renewal
The federal Environmental Protect Agency has tossed another petition calling for a ban on the agricultural pesticide chlorpyrifos.
Two years ago, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt denied requests fo revoke all tolerances or maximum residue levels for food and cancel all chlorpyrifos registrations.
EPA is once again allowing farmers to continue
Continue Reading EPA permits agricultural use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos until at least 2020
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt earlier this week signed an order denying a petition that sought to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide widely used in U.S. agriculture.
Chlorpyrifos was first registered for use in the United States by Dow Chemical in 1965 to control leafage and ground insects. It
Continue Reading New EPA administrator refuses to ban pesticide chlorpyrifos
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says there are no risks to humans from exposure to the common insecticide chlorpyrifos from food, but the agency has nonetheless asked for public comment on a proposal to revoke all food residue tolerances for the insecticide, which is mostly used on fruits, vegetable
Continue Reading EPA May Ban Insecticide Over Water Quality Issues, Not Food
