Glyphosate Focus Meeting – 11-8-2012-EPA-PMRA-JGTF

Glyphosate Registration Review Focus Meeting Held November 8, 2012

Participants: Joint Glyphosate Task Force, Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory 

Agency, and Office of Pesticide Programs

November 8, 2012 

On November 8, 2012, representatives from the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs met for 1.5 

hours with representatives from the Joint Glyphosate Task Force (JGTF) and Health Canada’s 

Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) to discuss the application parameters across 

glyphosate labels.,. The JGTF presented to EPA and PMRA their efforts thus far to tabulate 

use rates for glyphosate products. The JGTF indicated that it was attempting to identify

particular application parameters (e.g. application rates or number of applications) that are 

currently missing from glyphosate labels. The absence of application parameters may present 

difficulties for product users, and presents difficulties for the Agency when it conduct its risk 

assessment. The parties discussed how, and whether all glyphosate use parameters may be 

captured in a single document that may be considered a “master glyphosate label.” 

The status of registration review data requirements, and the timeframe for submission of these 

data was also briefly discussed. 
Glyphosate Focus Meeting – 11-8-2012-EPA-PMRA-JGTF

Attendees

Glyphosate Focus Meeting 

November 8, 2012

Name Affiliation Email

EPA 

Arnet Jones OPP/BEAD jones.arnet@epa.gov

Bill Phillips OPP/BEAD Phillips.bill@epa.gov

Sepehr Haddad OPP/BEAD haddad.sepehr@epa.gov

Dana Spatz OPP/EFED spatz.dana@epa.gov

Amy Blankinship OPP/EFED Blankinship.amy@epa.gov

Rosanna LouieJuzwaikOPP/EFED Louie-juzwiak.rosanna@epa.gov

Jim Hetrick OPP/EFED Hetrick.james@epa.gov

Billy Smith OPP/HED smith.charles@epa.gov

Julie VanAlstine OPP/HED Vanalstine.julie@epa.gov

Carissa Cyran OPP/PRD cyran.carissa@epa.gov

Thomas Moriarty OPP/PRD Moriarty.thomas@epa.gov

Dan Kenny OPP/RD kenny.dan@epa.gov

Erik Kraft OPP/RD Kraft.erik@epa.gov

Joint Glyphosate Task Force

Spencer Mortensen BASF Spencer.mortensen@syngenta.com

Katie Miller Data Group 

Management

datagroup@dgminc.net

Jason Bailey Dow 

AgroSciences

jpbailey@dow.com

Steve McMaster Dow 

AgroSciences

samcmaster@dow.com

Erin Ahlers Monsanto Erin.m.ahlers@monsanto.com

Steve Adams Monsanto stephen.a.adams@monsanto.com

Bill Mahlburg Nufarm bill.mahlburg@us.nufarm.com

Matt Granahan Nufarm Matthew.granahan@us.nufarm.com

Janelle Kay Pyxis janelle@pyxisrc.com

Jerry Wells Syngenta Jerry.wells@syngenta.com

PMRA

Wenming Zhang PMRA Wenming.zhang@hc-sc.gc.ca

Sonia Roussel PMRA Sonia.Roussel@hc-sc.gc.ca
Glyphosate Focus Meeting – 11-8-2012-EPA-PMRA-JGTF

 Glyphosate Focus Meeting

Thursday, November 8, 2012

11:00 am EDT

1. Introductions

2. Overview of Registration Review Timeline 

3. JGTF presentation of master label 

JGTF Questions to EPA

1. EPA timelines for the remainder of registration review

2. Where should we focus our resources in terms of collecting use/usage data 

3. When an active ingredient has diverse uses, what are acceptable sources for collecting 

use/usage information on specialty and minor uses

4. How much of this use/usage data is BEAD willing to consider

5. Is BEAD going to be preparing any additional use/usage information from their resources 

(beyond the Screening Level Usage Analysis)