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(Beyond Pesticides<\/i>, March 6, 2014) \u00a0Yesterday, Center for Environmental Health, Beyond Pesticides, and Physicians for \u00a0Social Responsibility, represented by Earthjustice, filed a complaint<\/a> against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to complete rulemaking that would require pesticide manufacturers to disclose \u00a0the inert ingredients on \u00a0their pesticide product labels. An inert ingredient<\/a> is any ingredient that is \u201cnot active,\u201d or not targeted to killing a pest.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsumers and users of pesticide products have a right to know all the ingredients that are in products they purchase so that they can make more informed choices in the marketplace,\u201d said Jay Feldman, Executive Director of Beyond Pesticides. EPA\u2019s 2010 proposal noted public disclosure \u201cmay lead to less exposure to\u201d\u00a6 hazardous inert ingredient[s] because consumers will likely choose products informed by the label.\u201d In turn, \u201cpesticide producers will likely respond by producing products with less hazardous inert ingredients.\u201d<\/p>\n

Billions of pounds of pesticides are dispersed throughout the U.S. and enter our food supply, homes, schools, public lands and waterways. The public knows very little about the chemicals contained in most of these pesticides because under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act<\/em> (FIFRA), pesticide manufacturers are only required to list \u201cactive\u201d ingredients that target a pest and not \u201cinert\u201d ingredients, despite the fact that many inerts are hazardous or suspected toxic chemicals<\/a><\/p>\n

In general, inert ingredients are minimally tested despite state, federal and international agencies’ knowledge that they may be hazardous to human health. For example, the U.S. government lists creosols as a \u201cHazardous Waste\u201d under Superfund regulations, yet allows these chemicals to be listed as inert ingredients in pesticide products. Creosols are known to produce skin and eye irritations, burns, inflammation, blindness, pneumonia, pancreatitis, central nervous system depression and kidney failure. The pesticide naphthalene <\/a>is an inert ingredient in some products and listed as an active ingredient in others<\/p>\n

Pesticide labels only identify the weight percentage of inert ingredients, which often comprise 50 to 99 percent of a formulation, and mislead the public into thinking that these other \u201cinert\u201d ingredients are safe. In 1997, EPA\u2019s own studies found that<\/a> \u201cmany consumers have a misleading impression of the term \u201d\u02dcinert ingredient\u2019 believing it to indicate water or other harmless ingredients.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPesticides are in the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the food we eat. Pesticide companies should not be able to keep us in the dark about the identity and toxicity of these chemicals,\u201d said Caroline Cox,<\/a> Research Director of Center for Environmental Health.<\/p>\n

Back in 2009, EPA \u00a0responded \u00a0<\/a>to two petitions, one by \u00a0led by the Northwest Centers for Alternatives to Pesticides<\/a> \u00a0(joined by Beyond Pesticides and 20 other organizations), and a second by 15 \u00a0State Attorneys General<\/a>, that identified over 350 inert pesticide ingredients as hazardous. The petitioners asked EPA to require these inert ingredients be identified on the labels of products that include them in their formulations. This action only happed after the Center filed a lawsuit in 2009 to compel EPA to begin the rulemaking process.<\/p>\n

On December 23, 2009, EPA took another promising step forward with an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR)<\/a>, anouncing its intention to seek public input on developing an inert ingredient disclosure rule. Putting forth two proposals, one would require listing of all ingredients already identified as hazardous and the other would require listing of all ingredients. The comment period for the proposals closed in April 2010, but EPA has taken no further action since then.<\/p>\n

\u201cEPA said that these inert ingredients should be labeled to protect consumers, but has done nothing to require such labeling. In the meantime, families and children exposed to these chemicals are suffering illnesses their doctors can\u2019t adequately treat because they have no idea what chemicals they are dealing with,\u201d said Wendy Park, attorney at Earthjustice. \u201cThe fact is that the EPA has identified hundreds of these \u201d\u02dcinert\u2019 chemicals as hazardous or potentially hazardous. We need a safeguard in place to protect communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Public comments in favor of the rule included support from doctors. \u201cWhen pesticide producers refuse to identify all the ingredients in pesticides, doctors are compromised in their ability to treat patients,\u201d said Barbara Gottlieb, Director of Environment and Health at Physicians for Social Responsibility. \u201cImmediate access to information on inert substances in pesticides can make a critical difference in patient outcome.<\/p>\n

Together with its allies, Beyond Pesticides hopes to move EPA forward on this important issue and establish public access to important information about the chemicals used around them.<\/p>\n

Source: Earthjustice<\/a><\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/i><\/p>\n

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