EPA Targets Fluoride Pesticide

Days after releasing new, more conservative risk and exposure assessments for the mineral fluoride, EPA is proposing to withdraw longstanding food safety limits, or tolerances, for the fluorinated pesticide sulfuryl fluoride, a move that will effectively ban many of its current uses. In a Jan. 7 proposed order signed by Office of Pesticide Programs Director Steve Bradbury, EPA announced it will grant a petition filed by environmentalists objecting to the Bush-era tolerances for sulfuryl fluoride, a fumigant used as an...