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(Beyond Pesticides, August 2, 2016)<\/em> The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) has upheld<\/a> an earlier ruling<\/a> by EPA\u2019s chief administrative law judge, Susan Biro, to cancel sales of the conditionally registered insecticide flubendiamide, produced by Bayer CropScience, which was conclusively found \u00a0to be highly toxic to freshwater wildlife after EPA allowed its use on 200 crops. The situation has left many questioning why the agency did not wait to register the product until it had complete data.<\/p>\n

The EAB disagreed with the Office of Pesticide Programs \u00a0and Judge Biro\u2019s decision regarding existing stocks of the insecticide product, and ruled that farmers and other users, retailers, and distributors (not the manufacturers) will be allowed to use and sell existing supplies of the chemical. This controversy points to what health and environmental advocates cite as a fundamental flaw \u00a0in EPA’s pesticide registration review \u2014the agency\u2019s conditional pesticide registration process, which allows toxic pesticides \u00a0on the market without a complete and comprehensive assessment \u00a0of their \u00a0potential \u00a0harm\u201d\u201din this case to \u00a0wildlife and the vital ecosystem services they provide.<\/p>\n

Despite its agreement with EPA, Bayer said in March it would fight the EPA decision, which it appealed to the EAB. But, on Friday after the \u00a0EAB decision, Bayer \u00a0told Reuters that it would “halt future U.S. sales<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The EAB ruling<\/a> \u00a0on July 29 makes clear that under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), Bayer CropScience and fellow registrant Nichino America could not challenge conditions of the registration. The document states, \u201cBy failing to request voluntary cancellation of their flubendiamide registrations within one week of the Program\u2019s January 29, 2016 determination that flubendiamide causes unreasonable adverse effects, Bayer and Nichino failed to satisfy the termination condition in their flubendiamide registrations.\u201d The EAB also found that, while Judge Biro\u2019s decision to halt sale and distribution of existing flubendiamide products through Bayer and Nichino was legally sound, the determination to prohibit distributors and retailers from doing the same was not supported.<\/p>\n

“It is outrageous that EPA would allow this known hazardous pesticide to remain on the market until stocks \u00a0in the hands of users and re-sellers are used up, when the chemical exceeds the agency’s risk criteria, threatens \u00a0wildlife now, and was allowed on the market with \u00a0a presumed standard of safety that was not met,” said Jay Feldman, executive director of Beyond Pesticides.<\/p>\n

In 2008, EPA granted Bayer a \u201cconditional\u201d registration for flubendiamide, a classification that allows a new pesticide to be registered and used in the field, despite outstanding data on its toxicological impact. In this case, original data submitted to EPA by Bayer showed concern over the effect of the chemical and its breakdown product on freshwater benthic invertebrates<\/a>, species such as crustaceans and aquatic insects that \u00a0live in stream sediment and provide important ecosystem services. such as decomposition and nutrient cycling. In response, rather than declining to proceed with registration of the chemical, EPA negotiated a deal with Bayer to conditionally register the chemical for five \u00a0years with additional label restrictions, while it waited for more \u00a0data on the harm to benthic species. EPA wrote<\/a> (p.10): \u201cIf there are risk concerns at that time that result in the Agency being unable to determine there are no reasonable adverse effects to the environment, the registrants have agreed that the pesticide will be voluntarily canceled.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the conditional registration agreement, studies showed that flubendiamide \u2014which is registered for use on over 200 crops, including soybeans, almonds, tobacco, peanuts, and cotton\u2014 is toxic to aquatic organisms, breaking down into a more highly toxic substance that harms organisms important to aquatic ecosystems, especially fish. The insecticide is also persistent in the environment. After being informed<\/a> of the agency\u2019s findings on January 29, 2016, Bayer and Nichino were asked to submit a request for voluntary cancellation by Friday, February 5, 2016. \u00a0Instead, Bayer then rejected the request<\/a> and EPA\u2019s interpretation of the science. After Bayer would not voluntarily remove from the market the insecticide flubendiamide, EPA formally issued a Notice of Intent to Cancel<\/a> the insecticide, citing its high toxicity to aquatic organisms.<\/p>\n

The saga that has unfolded between EPA and Bayer reveals an agency struck a deal that it could not immediately enforce. Rather than reject the pesticide for its adverse impacts, or require the additional data before it is used across the country on 200 crops, EPA allowed a pesticide known to harm aquatic organisms to go to market with only a promise \u00a0that it would be withdrawn if warranted by additional data. EPA has historically opted to work with pesticide manufacturers to have them voluntarily cancel harmful products, rather than go through a process of cancellation proceedings, which requires agency resources. Bayer\u2019s actions show the danger of making deals with a multinational corporation that puts profit motives above environmental health. In 2013, the Government Accountability Office scolded the agency<\/a> for its conditional registration process, writing, \u201cSpecifically, EPA does not have a reliable system, such as an automated data system, to track key information related to conditional registrations, including whether companies have submitted additional data within required time frames.\u201d<\/p>\n

A startling number of pesticides, nearly 65% of the more than 16,000 pesticides now on the market, were first approved by the process of \u201cconditional registration.\u201d Meanwhile, the Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency finalized its \u00a0decision to discontinue<\/a> granting new conditional registrations, also on June 1<\/a>. \u201cThe prudent approach to protecting environmental health would be to halt conditional registrations of pesticides,\u201d said Mr. \u00a0Feldman. Rather than provide avenues for chemical companies to game the system and poison the environment, EPA should take strong action to encourage pest prevention and readily available alternatives to toxic pesticides.<\/p>\n

Beyond Pesticides has long advocated a regulatory approach \u00a0that prohibits hazardous chemical use and requires alternative assessments to identify less toxic practices and products under the unreasonable<\/em> adverse effects clause of FIFRA. Farm, beekeeper, and environmental groups, including Beyond Pesticides, have urged EPA to follow in the steps of countries like Canada and the European Union by following the precautionary principle, which generally approves products after they have been assessed for harm, not before. Beyond Pesticides \u00a0suggests an approach that rejects uses and exposures deemed acceptable under risk assessment calculations, and instead focuses on \u00a0safer alternatives that are proven effective, such as \u00a0organic agriculture<\/a>, which prohibits the use of toxic chemicals.<\/p>\n

Source: Environmental Appeals Board Decision<\/a>, <\/em>Agri-Pulse<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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This controversy points to what health and environmental advocates cite as a fundamental flaw \u00a0in EPA’s pesticide registration review \u2014the agency\u2019s conditional pesticide registration process, which allows toxic pesticides \u00a0on the market without a complete and comprehensive assessment \u00a0of their \u00a0potential \u00a0harm\u201d\u201din this case to \u00a0wildlife and the vital ecosystem services they provide. Despite its agreement with EPA, Bayer said in March it would fight the EPA decision, which it appealed to the EAB. 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