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The Environmental Protection Agency's Programs to Encourage the Use of Safer Pesticides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Janet Andersen ,
Anne Leslie ,
Sharlene Matten  and
Rita Kumar
Janet Andersen
Affiliation:
USEPA (7501W), 401 M St. SW, Washington, DC 20460
Anne Leslie
Affiliation:
USEPA (7501W), 401 M St. SW, Washington, DC 20460
Sharlene Matten
Affiliation:
USEPA (7501W), 401 M St. SW, Washington, DC 20460
Rita Kumar
Affiliation:
USEPA (7501W), 401 M St. SW, Washington, DC 20460
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Abstract

The Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) within the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has initiated several programs to reduce risks associated with the use of pesticides. Examples include accelerated registration of new products (including biological pesticides) that offer reduced risk to human health and the environment, and regulatory relief for products posing virtually no risk to provide replacement for more problematic pesticides. In addition, efforts are being undertaken to reduce pesticide resistance in target pests, develop joint “Environmental Stewardship” efforts between the EPA, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The new Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (BPPD), established as a pilot in October 1994, has responsibility for many above functions, with special emphasis on registration of biological pesticides and development of the new Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program (PESP). This program is designed to recognize achievements already made by farmers to reduce conventional pesticide use and to find further improvements through cooperative efforts with growers.

Keywords

Accelerated registrationbiological pesticidesenvironmental stewardshippollution preventionregulatory relief
Type
Symposium
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , December 1996 , pp. 966 - 968
Copyright
Copyright © 1996 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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3 Abbreviations: ai's, active ingredients; BPPB, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division; Federal Insecticide, EUP, Environmental Use Permit; FDA, United States Food and Drug Administration; FIFRA, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; IPM, Integrated Pesticide Management, OPP, Office of Pesticide Programs; PESP, Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program; USDA, United States Department of Agriculture.Google Scholar