2,4-D -- Request for Comments on NRDC Petition
From: Coble, Harold
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 7:21 AM
To: John Ayers; Sue Ratcliffe; Rick Melnicoe;
Jim VanKirk
Subject: FW: 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid (2,4-D),
a Herbicide - EPA is seeking comments on a petition Natural Resources
Defense Council (NRDC), requesting that EPA revoke all tolerances and
cancel all registrations for 2,4-D.
You may want to send this out to those interested in weed management.
Happy New Year!
Harold
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From: Teung.
F.Chin
Sent: Mon 12/29/2008 2:22 PM
To: Alan.V.Tasker;
Coble, Harold
Subject: Fw: 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid
(2,4-D), a Herbicide - EPA is seeking comments on a petition Natural
Resources Defense Council (NRDC), requesting that EPA revoke all
tolerances and cancel all registrations for 2,4-D.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or comments.
Best regards,
Teung
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Teung F. Chin, Ph.D.
Acting Director (effective January 4, 2009)
Office of Pest Management Policy
Agricultural Research Service
United States Department of Agriculture
LOCATED AT:
1400 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Room 3871 - South Bldg. Mail Stop 0315
Washington DC, 20250-0315
(Effective January 4, 2009) Phone (202) 720-5375 Fax (202) 720-3191
http://www.ars.usda.gov/opmp
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2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid (2,4-D), a Herbicide - EPA is seeking
comments on a petition Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), requesting
that EPA revoke all tolerances and cancel all registrations for 2,4-D.
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Summary: The petitioner, NRDC, claims that EPA cannot
make a finding that there is a reasonable certainty of no harm from dietary
residues of 2,4-D and, therefore, that the Agency must revoke all tolerances
established under section 408 of FFDCA, as amended by FQPA.
As a part of the petition, NRDC claims that the Agency did not consider
the full spectrum of potential human health effects associated with
2,4-D in connection with EPA's reassessment of the existing 2,4-D tolerances,
and EPA's environmental risk assessment including:
1. Information on the endocrine disrupting effects of 2,4-D.
2. Information on the neurotoxicity related to 2,4-D exposure.
3. Information that products containing 2,4-D are mutagenic.
4. Data showing that dermal absorption of 2,4-D is enhanced by alcohol
consumption, sunscreen, and DEET which the EPA's exposure assessment
failed to include.
5. Information about adverse developmental effects at doses below those
included in EPA's risk assessment for exposure of infants to 2,4- D
in breast milk.
Source: Federal Register: December 24, 2008 (Volume 73,
Number 248)
Comments Due By: February 23, 2009
Web site: The Federal Register notice is at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-30527.htm
The NRDC petition is in Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0877, available
at http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0877
Risk assessment and related documents for this pesticide can be found
under docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2004-0167, available athttp://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=EPA-HQ-OPP-2004-0167
Contact: Cathryn O'Connell, Special Review and Reregistration
Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703)
308-0136; fax number: (703) 308-7070; e-mail address: oconnell.cathryn@epa.gov
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