Bayer Vows To Challenge EPA Pesticide Cancellation Plan In Rare Hearing

Pesticide producer Bayer CropScience is vowing to seek a rare administrative hearing to contest EPA's plans to cancel the insecticide flubendiamide, arguing the agency's finding that the pesticide poses ecological risks is based on an inadequate assessment, and that a provision in EPA's 2008 conditional registration of the ingredient is unlawful. In a Feb. 5 letter to EPA Office of Pesticide Programs Director Jack Housenger, Bayer argues EPA's plan to cancel flubendiamide, commonly known as Belt, is based on "theoretical...