## REPELLENCY **A WA** **RENESS GRAPHIC** 

Rose Kyprianou, Field and External Af fairs Division Kelly Sherman, Immediate Of fice Of fice of Pesticide Programs

Informational Presentation for EP A’ s Human Studies Review Board

April 9, 2014

## What is the Repellency Awareness Graphic? A voluntary EP

A ef fort to: • 

### encourage standardized product labeling of skin applied insect repellents through use of a graphic, and • 

### clearly communicate to consumers the estimated number of hours mosquitoes and/or ticks are repelled by a product when used as directed **2**

# Graphic **3**

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### Three versions of the graphic will be available to voluntarily use on a product label • 

### A graphic with mosquito and tick information together • 

### Or graphics with only mosquito information or only tick information

# How Will It Work?

• For skin -applied insect repellents only • Graphical claim will be part of the product’ s approved registration and labeling • Companies must voluntarily apply – through new or amended registration application **4**
Ty pical length of time product repels ticks Shows that mosquitoes are repelled Shows that ticks are repelled Ty pical length of time product repels mosquitoes• 

### Producers submit/cite data with the following qualities: • Following current test guidelines or using an equivalent standard • Using multiple studies to inform the label claim for the pest group • Ti cks: specific representative test species • Mosquitoes: two field studies • 

### Data will undergo consistent analysis: • Median will be used to calculate Complete Protection Ti me (CPT) • EP A will develop criteria for determining the number(s) shown in the repellency awareness graphic • E.g., how

to deal with multiple data sets, how to round a number, minimum CPT needed to use the graphic **5** 

# How Will It Work?

# Why Is This Ef

fort Important? **6**

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### Assists public health protection • Improves consumers’knowledge about how to protect themselves against vector borne disease, like West Nile virus and Lyme disease • 

### Represents a more rigorous standard of data generation and analysis • Increases EP

A’ s and consumers’confidence in the ef ficacy claims on labels • 

### Provides consistency • 

### Enhances public health information and improves the clarity of pesticide product labeling

# Relevance to the HSRB
• Current guidelines for testing the ef ficacy of skin -applied repellents recommend intentional exposure studies with human subjects, which are subject to HSRB review • EP A published guidance regarding the repellency awareness graphic and invited public comment last November • If companies want to use the graphic, they may need to conduct new repellent ef ficacy studies • Possibility of a fairly large work load for EP A and HSRB • Some public comments expressed interest in exploring ways to streamline the HSRB review process **7**

# Next Steps
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### Public comment period ended on March 6, 2014 • 

### EP A is reviewing comments and encouraging companies interested in the graphic to contact us • 

### Wecould hear later this year from companies wanting to move forward to conduct research to obtain the repellency awareness graphic **8**