USA - Request for Comment on Chlorpyrifos; Tolerance Revocations

US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing and inviting comment on additional information obtained and developed by EPA in conjunction with the proposed tolerance revocation for chlorpyrifos. This information includes the revised human health risk assessment and the drinking water assessment. It also includes EPA's issue paper and supporting analyses presented to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Scientific Advisory Panel's (SAP) meeting in April 2016 that addressed chlorpyrifos biomonitoring data and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, public comments received during the meeting, the FIFRA SAP's meeting minutes and the FIFRA SAP report.

Proposed date of adoption : To be determined.

Proposed date of publication : To be determined.

Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or : To be determined.

Final date for comments: [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification and/or : 17 January 2017

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.