CPDA
CPDA has written to USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue requesting that the Department consider an extension of the final planting dates for insured crops in those states where farmers have experienced the devastating impacts of the natural disasters that have severely disrupted the 2019 growing season. In its June 7, 2019 letter sent to the Secretary,…
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CPDA’s 2019 Adjuvants & Inerts Conference, “Developing Trends and Emerging Needs of the Agrotechnology Industry,” held April 29-May 1 at the Grand Hyatt Denver in Denver, Colorado, featured a comprehensive and informative speakers program that covered a wide variety of topics of key importance to the agrotechnology industry. This year’s conference drew an audience of…
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CPDA and other members of the PRIA Industry Coalition attended the EPA PRIA Quarterly Stakeholder Meeting held at the Agency’s Office of Pesticide Programs headquarters in Arlington, Virginia on March 13, 2019. The meeting included OPP leadership from all three registering divisions (RD, AD and BPPD). EPA personnel gave a brief summary of the events…
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CPDA has collaborated with CLA, RISE and the Biological Products Industry Association (BPIA) in submitting joint industry comments to EPA on March 21, 2019 in response to a petition filed by the Center for Food Safety (CFS). The CFS petition requests that the Agency revise its testing requirements for pesticides prior to registration. Specifically, CFS…
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On March 8, 2019, President Trump signed into law S. 483, the “Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2018” (PRIA 4). The measure, which provides a long-term reauthorization of PRIA, was introduced in the Senate on February 13, 2019 as a stand-alone bill and was adopted in that chamber by voice vote on February 14th.…
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