Advocates Fault EPA's Conditional Registration Process In Pesticide Case

February 16, 2016
Environmentalists are urging EPA to immediately suspend its conditional registration of flubendiamide after the agency found the insecticide poses ecological risks, and are arguing the pesticide producer's refusal to voluntarily withdraw it from the market shows EPA's process of conditionally registering pesticides is broken and should be suspended. Bayer CropScience announced earlier this month it would refuse EPA's Jan. 29 request that the company voluntarily cancel its conditional registration of flubendiamide, arguing the agency's recent determination the pesticide poses unreasonable...


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