Submit Your Comments on EPA Spray Drift Guide TODAY
EPA announced
TODAY the availability of two draft
guidance documents for public comment. These documents describe how off-site
spray drift will be evaluated for ecological and human health risk assessments
for pesticides.
EPA is
seeking to strengthen its protections for people and the environment from
exposure to pesticides that drift from fields to nearby areas, including homes,
schools and playgrounds.
The Agency,
according to their statement, has a long-standing history of robust, routine
assessments on every chemical to protect consumers from pesticide risks from
treated food, workers who apply pesticides, and consumers who use pesticides in
and around homes. These new approaches add to these routine assessments and
will allow the Agency to estimate off-site drift, another step to protect
communities living near fields where crops are grown from these exposures.
The January
29, 2014, Federal Register Notice specifically seeks public input on these
approaches that include:
- a policy for
conducting human health risk assessments associated with the potential for
exposure from off-site drift during pesticide applications
- an updated
method for estimating environmental exposures associated with spray drift
The 60-day
public comment period will close on March 31, 2014. Following the public
comment period, EPA will analyze the comments, make appropriate modifications
to these policies and finalize them. The policies will then be used in
pesticide risk assessment.
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