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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/USA/251
7 April 2000
(00-1423)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  UNITED STATES
If applicable, name of local government involved:           
2. Agency responsible: Environmental Protection Agency - EPA
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where
applicable).  Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or
practicable:  Organophosphate pesticides
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Fenthion, Methidathion, Naled,
Phorate, and Profenofos; Proposed Revocation of Tolerances (4 pages)
5. Description of content: EPA is proposing to revoke 67 meat, milk, poultry, and egg
tolerances for residues of the organophosphate pesticides fenthion, methidathion, naled,
phorate, and profenofos.  EPA determined that there are no reasonable expectations of
finite residues in or on meat, milk, poultry, or eggs for the aforementioned organo-phosphate pesticides and announced on 2 August 1999, that those tolerances were
reassessed under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA).  The regulatory
actions proposed in this document are part of the Agency's reregistration program under the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), and the tolerance
reassessment requirements of the FFDCA. By law, EPA is required to reassess 66 per cent
of the tolerances in existence on 2 August 1996, by August 2002, or about 6,400 tolerances.
Since those 67 tolerances were previously reassessed, those reassessments were counted atthat time. Consequently, no reassessments are counted here toward the August 2002 review
deadline of FFDCA section 408(q), as am ended by the Food Quality Protection Act
(FQPA) of 1996.
6. Objective and rationale: [  X ] food safety,  [     ] animal health,  [     ] plant protection,
[    ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [     ] protect territory from
other damage from pests           
7. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [    ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:  Codex currently has MRLs for at least four of
these organophosphate pesticides for a number of the above listed commodities
8. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available: 65 FR 17236,
31 March 2000 (Available in English)
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined.G/SPS/N/USA/251
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10. Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined.
11. Final date for comments:  30 May 2000.
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  Environmental Protection Agency.
[    ] National notification authority, [     ] National enquiry point, or address, fax
number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:  Detailed instruction on where
and how to send comments is in the body of the full text - which will be sent upon request
to the address in paragraph 12.
12. Texts available from: [  X ] National notification authority, [  X ] National enquiry point
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
United States SPS Enquiry Point/Notification Authority
USDA/FAS/FSTSD
Attn: Carolyn F. Wilson
Room 5545 South Agriculture Building
Stop 10271400 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20250
Phone (202) 720-2239
Fax (202) 690-0677
E-mail Address: ofsts@fas.usda.gov