Nexreg releases regulatory news educating organizations on the changes in regulations, and how to keep their industrial and consumer products compliant.
From the EPA: In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of requests by the registrant to amend their registrations to terminate certain uses of products containing the pesticide disulfoton. The request would terminate disulfoton use in or on barley […]
Another important notice from the EPA: “Environmental Hazard General Labeling Statements on Outdoor Residential Use Products.” This PR Notice was issued by the Agency on May 9, 2008 and is identified as PR Notice 2008-1. PR Notices are issued by the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) to inform pesticide registrants and other interested persons about […]
From the EPA: EPA is announcing a public comment period for the external review draft document titled, “Toxicological Review of Carbon Tetrachloride: In Support of Summary Information on the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)” (EPA/635/R-08/008A). The EPA intends to consider comments and recommendations from the public and the expert panel meeting, which will be scheduled […]
From the EPA – Benfluralin, Carbaryl, Diazinon, Dicrotophos, Fluometuron, Formetanate Hydrochloride, Glyphosate, Metolachlor, Napropamide, Norflurazon, Pyrazon, and Tau-Fluvalinate; Proposed Tolerance Actions: EPA is proposing to revoke certain tolerances for the herbicides benfluralin and napropamide and the insecticides carbaryl and diazinon. Also, EPA is proposing to modify certain tolerances for the herbicides fluometuron, glyphosate, norflurazon, and […]
From Canada’s Minister of the Environment: 1. Part 1 of the Domestic Substances List (see footnote 1) is amended by adding the following in numerical order: 51382-28-6 N-P 67423-05-6 N 128635-36-9 N-P 412041-84-0 N-P 884334-68-3 N-P 951775-27-2 N-P 2. Part 3 of the List is amended by adding the following in numerical order: 15828-6 N-P […]
From Canada’s Department of the Environment regarding the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999: Publication after screening assessment of a substance — Benzene, 1,3-bis(1-isocyanato-1-methylethyl)- (tetramethyl-m-xylylene diisocyanate), CAS No. 2778-42-9 — Specified on the Domestic Substances List [subsection 77(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999] link Publication after screening assessment of a substance — Spiro[isobenzofuran-1(3H),9(-[9H]xanthen]-3-one, 2(,4(,5(,7(-tetrabromo-3(,6(-dihyroxy- […]
From Canada’s Department of the Environment: Notice of intent to amend the Domestic Substances List under subsection 87(3) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 to indicate that subsection 81(3) of the Act applies to Benzenesulfonic acid, [(9,10-dihydro-9,10-dioxo-1,4-anthracenediyl) bis(imino-4,1-phenyleneoxy)]bis-, disodium salt and Benzenesulfonic acid, 2,2′ -[(9,10-dihydro-5,8-dihydroxy -9,10-dioxo-1,4-anthracenediyl) diimino]bis[5-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-, disodium salt Whereas the two substances set […]
From Canada’s Department of the Environment: This notice is made pursuant to subparagraphs 68(a)(ix) and 68(a)(xiii) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. The annex of this notice describes the criteria, process and schedule that the Department of the Environment will use to determine the relevance of applications it receives from persons seeking to use […]
A proposed rule from the FDA: Content and Format of Labeling for Human Prescription Drug and Biological Products; Requirements for Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to amend its regulations concerning the format and content of the “Pregnancy”, “Labor and delivery”, and “Nursing mothers” subsections of the “Use in […]
An article from the Contra Costa Times hilights the potentially high costs for non-compliance with California’s Prop 65: A San Francisco judge sent a $10 million message Tuesday to a Los Angeles company that repeatedly ignored warnings to reduce the amount of lead in its lunchbox products, two of which were found at a Hillsborough […]
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