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New Pesticide Labels Will Better Protect Bees and Other Pollinators

August 29, 2013 | by Carolyn | No Comments

CONTACT: Molly Hooven (news media only) Hooven.molly@epa.gov 202-564-2313 202-564-4355 Dale Kemery (news media only) Kemery.dale@epa.gov 202-564-7839 202-564-4355 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 15, 2013 New Pesticide Labels Will Better Protect Bees and Other Pollinators WASHINGTON â?? In an ongoing effort to protect bees and other pollinators, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed new pesticide labels that prohibit use of some neonicotinoid pesticide products where bees are present. Multiple factors play a role in bee colony declines, including pesticides. The Environmental Protection Agency is taking action to protect bees from pesticide exposure and these label changes will further our efforts,
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Categories: Bees and Pesticides.
Tags: bee labels, bee pesticides, bee protection, EPA bee labels, and pesticides.

EPA Moves to Ban 12 D-Con Mouse and Rat Control Products

January 30, 2013 | by Carolyn | No Comments

Action Will Prevent Thousands of Accidental Exposures Among Children Each Year Â WASHINGTON â?? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to ban the sale of 12 D-Con mouse and rat poison products produced by Reckitt Benckiser Inc. because these products fail to comply with current EPA safety standards. Approximately 10,000 children a year are accidentally exposed to mouse and rat baits; EPA has worked cooperatively with companies to ensure that products are both safe to use around children and effective for consumers. Reckitt Benckiser Inc., maker of D-Con brand products, is the only rodenticide producer that has refused to adopt
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Categories: Pesticides, Poison prevention, and Rodenticides.
Tags: children and pesticides, Mice, poison prevention, rat and mouse poisons, rodenticides, and Rodents.

EPA Seeks Additional Public Comment on Pesticide Sulfuryl Fluoride

May 2, 2012 | by Carolyn | No Comments

On May 1, EPA published a Federal Register notice requesting comment on several issues raised during the 2011 comment period on the proposed tolerance revocation and stay request for the pesticide sulfuryl fluoride. Interested parties will have an opportunity to provide additional perspective and information on legal arguments raised during the previous comment period. EPA is also asking stakeholders to provide further information on the availability of alternatives and the potential impacts from the withdrawal of the sulfuryl fluoride and fluoride tolerances (legal residue limits on food). Sulfuryl fluoride is an alternative to the ozone depleting pesticide methyl bromide, and
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Categories: Pesticides.
Tags: methyl bromide, stored grain pesticide, and sulfuryl fluoride.

EPA Issues Stop Sale Order to DuPont on Sale and Distribution of Imprelis Herbicide

March 20, 2012 | by Carolyn | No Comments

EPA Issues Stop Sale Order to DuPont on Sale and Distribution of Imprelis Herbicide WASHINGTON â?? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued an order to E.I. DuPont de Nemours (DuPont) directing the company to immediately halt the sale, use or distribution of Imprelis, an herbicide marketed to control weeds that has been reported to be harming a large number of trees, including Norway spruce and white pine. The order, issued under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), requires DuPont to stop the sale and distribution of Imprelis in the U.S. and outlines specific conditions to ensure
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Categories: Pesticides.
Tags: DuPont, herbicide damage, Imprelis herbicide, Norway spruce injury, and white pine injury.

EPA Takes Next Step to Cancel 20 Mouse and Rat Control Products Used in Homes / Action will reduce accidental exposures to harmful chemicals

November 4, 2011 | by Carolyn | No Comments

Release Date: 11/02/2011 Contact Information: Dale Kemery (News Media Only) kemery.dale@epa.gov 202-564-7839 202-564-4355 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today took another step in the process to cancel 20 mouse and rat control products that do not adequately protect people, particularly young people, from exposure to toxic chemicals. EPA has determined that safer rodent control products are now widely available, effective, and affordable. The products EPA plans to remove from the consumer market are those that contain the most toxic and persistent active ingredients, products sold as loose bait and pellets and any remaining products without protective bait
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Categories: Pesticides.
Tags: Mice, Rats, rodenticides, and Rodents.