# Presentation: 371861

## EPA’S PESTICIDE REGISTRATION PROGRAM

**Eugene Thilsted**
**Strategic Agriculture Initiative Coordinator**
***Environmental Protection Agency – Region 6***
***Dallas, TX   75202***
***January 27, 2004***

## OVERVIEW

**Definitions and Framework**
**Pesticide Registration**
**Crisis Exemptions**
**Devices**
**Take Home Messages**

## FIFRA DEFINITIONS

**The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) says:**
**A **_***pesticide***_** is any substance intended to  prevent, destroy, repel or mitigate any pest, but not drugs or liquid medical device sterilants.**
**A **_***pest***_** is any form of plant or animal life or virus, bacteria, or other microorganism, except on or in living man or animals.**

## FIFRA DEFINITIONS

**An **_***antimicrobial pesticide***_** is any substance intended to kill microorganisms or protect inanimate objects from contamination or fouling by microorganisms.**
**A **_***pesticide device***_** is a mechanical or physical contrivance intended to prevent or kill any pest.**

## FIFRA FRAMEWORK

**Prior to sale or distribution, a pesticide product must be EITHER:**
**Registered by EPA (Sec. 3),****	**_***OR***_
**Granted an exemption (Sec. 18)**
**Specific exemption **
**Public health exemption**
**Crisis exemption**

## FIFRA FRAMEWORK

**The only exception to registration or exemption under FIFRA is **_**laboratory testing**_** to generate data to support a registration or exemption**
_**Field tests**_** for pesticidal purposes need an exemption (see next slide).**

## FIFRA FRAMEWORK

_**Field tests**_** for pesticidal purposes need an exemption.**
_***Exception***_**:  conducting experimental field tests of new pesticides or new uses of pesticides  on 10 acres or more land or one acre or more of water (an EUP – Section 5 is required).**

## PESTICIDE REGISTRATION (FIFRA Sec. 3)

**Companies must develop their own data and submit applications for registration**
**Product labeling and required data accompany the application**
**Registration may be for new product or amending existing product**

## PESTICIDE REGISTRATIONEFFICACY DATA

**EPA Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) sets test data & performance standards**

## CRISIS EXEMPTION PROCESS (FIFRA Sec. 18)

**EPA set up expedited process to issue crisis exemptions – permits the unregistered use of a pesticide in a specific geographic area for a limited time if emergency pest conditions exist.**
**Requests may come from federal, state or local agencies, companies, or registrants**

## CRISIS EXEMPTION PROCESS (FIFRA Sec. 18)

**Requests must submit/cite efficacy data and describe exactly how product will be used**
**Usually growers and others encounter a pest problem in which there is no registered pesticide available.**

## CRISIS EXEMPTIONS

**Requests must contain a site-specific remediation plan**
**EPA reviews requests to assure that a product will be effective and safe for the proposed use**
**Request needs to address any safety or environmental issues**

## CRISIS EXEMPTION  EFFICACY DATA

**Efficacy data must provide **_***scientific evidence***_** that the product will control the specific pest in which the Section 18 crisis was submitted****   **

## CRISIS EXEMPTIONS

_**State-Specific Registrations**_
_**Section 24C**_
**States can register a new pesticide product for any use (or an additional use) as long as there is both a demonstrated “special local need” and a tolerance, exemption from a tolerance, or other clearance under FFDCA**

## DEVICE

**Means any instrument (other than a firearm) which is intended for trapping, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest or any other form of plant or animal life (other than man, bacteria, virus, etc.).**
**Does not include equipment used for the application of pesticides when sold separately. **

## TAKE HOME MESSAGES

**Pesticides must have a registration or exemption prior to sale or distribution**
**Requests for crisis exemptions along with data, labeling and plans must be submitted to EPA/OPPTS **

## FOR MORE INFORMATION

_**VISIT**_
- _[www.epa.gov/pesticides](http://www.epa.gov/pesticides)_
- _[www.epa.gov/pesticides/factssheets/registration.](http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/factssheets/registration.htm)__[htm](http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/factssheets/registration.htm)_
**Or:  call the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs – Registration Ombudsperson**
**Linda Arrington – 703-305-5446**

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