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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…

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…

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.…

In a significant win for CPDA, the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) has issued a memorandum, dated December 11, 2018, in which the Department addresses the concerns of the Council regarding WSDA’s proposed plan requiring spray adjuvant registrants to use a more specific chemical name in the Principal Functioning Agents (PFA) section of their…

On December 17, 2018 CPDA-Canada submitted comments in response to the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) updated consultation that proposes additional changes to the Agreement for Data Protection under Section 66 of the Pest Control Products Act (PCPA), commonly referred to as the Ministerial Agreement for Data Protection. The Ministerial Agreement sets forth the procedures…