On October 10, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released interim guidance aimed at expanding the labeling of antimicrobial products, allowing sanitizers to include claims of effectiveness against viruses. This guidance applies to products like household wipes and sprays registered with sanitizing claims. If laboratory data demonstrates their efficacy in meeting EPA’s established criteria for virucidal claims, these sanitizers can now add virus-killing claims to their labels.

On October 2, 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) jointly launched a web-based tool designed to guide companies in developing microbial biotechnology products. The newly released tool, hosted on the Unified Website for Biotechnology Regulation, aims to help developers, especially those new to the industry, navigate the complex regulatory landscape.

On October 1, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced new measures to safeguard federally endangered species and their critical habitats from the effects of chlorpyrifos. These measures, including revised product labels and region-specific Endangered Species Protection Bulletins, are designed to reduce exposure risks for both listed and non-listed species.

On August 6 and 7, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued significant orders to address health risks posed by two widely used pesticides: Dacthal (DCPA or dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate) and chlorpyrifos.

By July 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued updates on the tolerance exemptions for six pesticides under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA). REACH24H has summarized for your convenience:

On June 5, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final cancellation order for Corteva’s “Dursban 50W in Water Soluble Packets” and three Gharda chlorpyrifos products. Additionally, the U.S. EPA has amended stock provisions for two Liberty and three Winfield chlorpyrifos end-use products. The EPA website now includes updated FAQs about chlorpyrifos.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 at the end of 2019, the U.S. EPA has issued a series of friendly policies to encourage companies to register disinfectants in order to ensure the demands for disinfectants by U.S. citizens. Driven by both market demand and government policies, many Chinese companies took advantage of this opportunity to layout the U.S. disinfectant market.  

Enterprises usually have to spend a huge amount of cost to complete a pesticide registration under the US EPA, but are subject to registration amendments afterward due to various reasons, such as trade market demands, formula changes, active ingredient source changes, label changes, etc. What’s the difference between the pesticide registration amendments and new registration? Is the registration amendments easier than new registration? In this article, REACH24H will give a detailed introduction to pesticide registration amendments under the US EPA.

Product chemical data is the most basic part among the pesticide registration dossier. In addition to identity information, it also includes the 5 batch analysis of the technical materials, phys-chem properties and physical hazards for both technical materials and preparations, and technical properties for preparations. Generally, tests are needed to generate data for the four parts. This article will compare the product chemistry requirements for pesticide registration in China, the US and Europe, hoping to help companies in pesticide registration in various countries.  

On June 2, the US EPA invited a 15-day consultation on the registration of novel microbial nematicide Purpureocillium Lilacinum Strain PL11, including a manufacturing-use product and 2 end-use products.