USA - Pesticide Tolerances for Fluopicolide

US Environmental Protection Agency has issued regulation amends tolerances for residues of fluopicolide in or on potato, processed potato waste and vegetable, tuberous and corm, subgroup 1C and establishes a tolerance for residues of fluopicolide in or on potato, granules/flakes. This regulation also assigns an expiration date to existing tolerances for potato, processed potato waste at 1.0 ppm and vegetable, tuberous and corm, subgroup 1C at 0.3 ppm. Lastly, this regulation establishes a time-limited tolerance on hop, dried cones. The time-limited tolerance is in response to EPA's granting of an emergency exemption under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). The time-limited tolerance will expire and revoked on 31 December 2019.

Proposed date of adoption : 26 September 2016

Proposed date of publication : 26 September 2016

Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or : 26 September 2016

Final date for comments: [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification and/or : Not applicable

If the Proposal/Notification/Regulation will affect your International Business please send us your representation with facts and figures before 20 February 2016, so that these can be taken up suitably.