endocrine disruptor screening program (edsp); policies and procedures for initial screening
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Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP); Policies and Procedures for Initial Screening. International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology 2009 Endocrine Workshop September 10, 2009. Roadmap for Today’s Presentation. Introduction & Background Issuing Test Orders - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP); Policies and Procedures for
Initial Screening
International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
2009 Endocrine Workshop
September 10, 2009
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Roadmap for Today’s Presentation
Introduction & Background Issuing Test Orders Initial Response Forming consortia / cost sharing Satisfaction of testing requirements –
compliance Data compensation & confidentiality
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Introduction & Background
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Legal Authorities
FFDCA §408(p)• Authority for EDSP Testing
FFDCA §408(i)• Extension of “FIFRA Protection”
FFDCA §408(f)• Authority To Require Data
FIFRA §3(c)(2)(B)• Authority to Require Data
FIFRA §3(c)(1)(F)• Data Compensation
FIFRA §3(c)(2)(D)• “Formulators’ Exemption”
FIFRA §10(b), 10(g) TSCA §4 SDWA §1457
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Legal Authorities
FFDCA §408(p) - Authority for EDSP Testing
Directs EPA to screen all “pesticide chemicals” for potential to affect endocrine systems
EPA may issue “test orders” to require screening and testing
EPA may send FFDCA §408(p) “test orders” to a registrant or to a manufacturer/importer of a pesticide chemical
Allows enforcement (suspension of registrations) if a registrant fails to comply with a FFDCA §408(p) test order• If a non-registrant fails to comply, EPA may
impose fines
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EPA’s Policy Goals:
Fulfill FFDCA §408(p)(5) directive: “to the extent practicable . . .• “Minimize duplicative testing”• Promote “fair and equitable sharing of test costs”• Develop “procedures for handling of [CBI]”
Minimize burden to the extent practical by building on existing procedures & infrastructures• Internally (EPA)• Externally (Affected Entities)
EPA’s Policies & Procedures appear at: • 74 Federal Register17560 (April 15, 2009); • http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/oscpendo/pubs/
revised_pandp_frn_041509.pdf
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Overall Process for EDSP Orders
Initial Response1. Determine Response to the
Order 2. Submit Initial Response to EPA
within 90 days.
Issue Order1. Identify Chemical for EDSP2. Identify Order Recipients3. Complete Order4. AA Signs Order5. EPA Issues Order
Start Agency
End
Respondent
Process Initial Response1. Document Response2. Implement Response as appropriate
Implement ResponseUse existing applicable procedures to implement the action as indicated in their response, includes generate data.
Submit DataUse existing applicable procedures to submit data.
Process Data Submission1. Document Data Submission2. Process as appropriate
Monitor Responses
1. Act on non-responders2. Follow-up on Commitments
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Issuing Test Orders
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Who Would Receive the EDSP Test Order?
Pesticide Active Ingredients• Send test orders under FFDCA §408(p) & FIFRA
§3(c)(2)(B) to technical registrants
Inert Ingredients• Send test orders under FFDCA §408(p) to
manufacturers/importers
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What’s in the Test Order?
A list of the required studies and protocols for conducting the studies
A list of other recipients of the Test Order A form indicating how the recipient responds
to the Test Order
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Initial Response
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What do Recipients Do?
(1) Read instructions
(2) Plan activities
(3) Submit an Initial Response to EPA within 90 days • Indicates intentions
• Uses Initial Response Form
(4) Read &, if appropriate, discuss the protocol w/ EPA
(5) Generate the data / participate in consortia
(6) Compile & review the data for submission
(7) Complete paperwork to assemble the submission package.
(8) Submit the data
(9) Maintain records
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Summary of Basic Response Options
(1) I will generate new data.(2) I will enter (or offer to enter) into an
agreement to form a Consortium to generate the data.
(3) I am citing or submitting existing data [OSRI]. (4) I am not subject to the Test Order. (5) I request Voluntary Cancellation of my
registration; I am applying to reformulate my product; or I commit to discontinue all manufacture and importation of the chemical or sale of the chemical as a pesticide inert.
(6) I am claiming a Formulators’ Exemption.
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Other Respondent Activities
Order Recipients may also request an extension of the timeframe for submitting data that is specified in the Order.
Order Recipients may request to conduct the required studies according to a different protocol
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FFDCA §408(p)(4) Exemptions
EPA can grant an exemption under FFDCA §408(p)(4) if it determines that a “substance is anticipated not to produce any effect in humans similar to an effect produced by a naturally occurring estrogen.”
• At this time, EPA has determined that the development of criteria to exempt certain substances or to otherwise identify any pre-determined or blanket exemptions from endocrine disruptor testing is premature.
• For the initial screening, EPA is not aware of sufficient data that would allow the Agency to confidently determine that a chemical meets the statutory standard for an exemption—i.e., that it is not anticipated to interact with the endocrine system.
• However, EPA will consider requests for such an exemption on a case-by-case or chemical-by-chemical basis in response to individual submissions. In order for the Agency to make the necessary statutory finding to issue the exemption, the request would need to provide any hazard-related information that would allow EPA to make the necessary statutory determination.
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Contesting a 408(p) Order/Decision Informal Administrative Review
Procedure • Recipients will be required by 408(p)
order to raise issues to EPA informally
Process for Contesting a Test Order/Pre-enforcement Review• Following EPA response, judicial
review in appropriate federal district court
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Consortia / Cost Sharing
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Minimizing Duplicative Testing & Promoting Cost Sharing
Active ingredient• Who: technical registrants• Authority: FIFRA 3(c)(2)(B)
Food use inerts• Who: manufacturers & importers• Authority: 408(p) & offers to share
Non-food use inerts• Who: manufacturers & importers• Authority: 408(p) & offers to share (option
to team up with a pesticide registrant)
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Pesticide Active Ingredients Procedures:
• Send test orders under FFDCA §408(p) & FIFRA §3(c)(2)(B) to technical registrants
• Issue FFDCA §408(f)(1)(C) notices for import tolerances- i.e., unregistered, foreign-produced
AIs
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Food-Use Inerts Procedures:
• Send test orders under FFDCA §408(p) to manufacturers/importers
• Issue FFDCA §408(f)(1)(C) notices for import tolerances
- i.e., unregistered, foreign-produced inerts
• Compliance achieved only by:- Generating data or stopping ALL production/importation
or by committing not to sell into the pesticide market
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Non-Food-Use Inerts
Procedures:• Send test orders under FFDCA §408(p) to
manufacturers/importers• Allow data generators to partner with a cooperating
registrant/agent• Allow compliance only by generating data or
stopping ALL production/importation or by committing not to sell into the pesticide market
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Forming Consortia
A Test Order recipient must make “an offer to commence negotiations regarding the amount and terms of paying a reasonable share of the cost of testing, and [include] an offer to resolve any dispute of the recipients’ shares of the test costs by submitting the dispute to a neutral third party with authority to bind the parties, (e.g., through binding arbitration).”
If so, EPA will exercise its discretion to treat such an offer as compliance with the Test Order so long as a recipient receiving the offer has committed to generate the required data.
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Satisfaction of Testing Requirements – Compliance
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Data Submission
Submit required progress reports and final data in a timely fashion
NOTE: Order Recipients may request an extension of the timeframe for submitting data that is specified in the Order.
Order Recipients must report adverse effects information according to FIFRA §6(a)(2) and TSCA §8.
Follow the format requirements of PR Notice 86-5
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What are the Consequences of Non-Compliance?
If a registrant fails to comply with the EDSP Order, EPA may suspend any affected registrations.
If a non-registrant (i.e., inert manufacturer/importer) fails to comply, EPA may impose fines under TSCA.
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Data Compensation & Confidentiality
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Data Compensation
Pesticide Actives• Established data compensation process under FIFRA
§3(c)(1)(F) applies Food Use Inerts
• “Catch-up” FFDCA §408(p) test orders to be sent to manufacturers/importers who enter the marketplace within 15 years after the data are submitted
• Under FIFRA §3(c)(1)(F) ensure compliance with data compensation as applications arrive; Pesticide Inert Ingredients Data Submitters & Suppliers List (PIIDSSL)
Non-food Use Inerts• Allow Test Order recipients to submit with a registrant• Send “catch-up” FFDCA §408(p) test orders to
manufacturers/importers who enter the marketplace within 15 years after the data are submitted
• Under FIFRA §3(c)(1)(F) ensure compliance with data compensation as applications arrive; PIIDSSL
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Procedures for Handling Confidential Business Information
Active Ingredients• FIFRA sec. 10
Food use inerts• FFDCA sec. 408(i) & FIFRA sec. 10
Non-food use inerts• Trade Secrets Act • If data submitted by a registrant,
FIFRA sec. 10 Special procedures for Proprietary
Mixtures
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SummaryChemical
CategoryOrder Recipient Data Development
Cost Sharing/Minimize Duplication
Data Compensation by Subsequent Entrants
Disclosure
Activ
e
Ing
red
ients
Technical RegistrantsFFDCA §408(p)
FIFRA §3(c)(2)(B) FIFRA §3(c)(2)(B) FIFRA §3(c)(1)(F) FIFRA §10(b), §10(g)
Producers with only import tolerances
FFDCA §408(f)(1)(C) FFDCA §408(i) FFDCA §408(i)
& FIFRA §3(c)(1)(F)
FFDCA §408(i)
& FIFRA §10(b), §10(g)
Fo
od
Us
e In
ert In
gre
dien
ts
Domestic Manufacturers &
ImportersFFDCA §408(p) FFDCA §408(i)
FFDCA §408(p)
“catch up” orders
FFDCA §408(i)
& FIFRA §10(b), §10(g)
Producers with only import tolerances
FFDCA §408(f)(1)(C) FFDCA §408(i) FFDCA §408(i)
& FIFRA §3(c)(1)(F)
FFDCA §408(i)
& FIFRA §10(b), §10(g)
No
n-F
oo
d U
se
Ine
rt In
gre
dien
ts
Domestic Manufacturers &
ImportersFFDCA §408(p)
“Discretion”
(effectively the same rights)
FFDCA §408(p)
“catch up” orders-
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Questions
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Backpocket Slides
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Legal Authorities
FFDCA §408(p) - Authority for EDSP Testing
Directs EPA to screen all “pesticide chemicals” for potential to affect endocrine systems
EPA may issue “test orders” to require screening and testing
EPA may send FFDCA §408(p) “test orders” to a registrant or to a manufacturer/importer of a pesticide chemical
Allows enforcement (suspension of registrations) if a registrant fails to comply with a FFDCA §408(p) test order• If a non-registrant fails to comply, EPA may
impose fines
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Legal Authorities
FFDCA §408(p) - Authority for EDSP Testing
Directs EPA to adopt procedures that:- Minimize duplicative testing- Promote fair and equitable sharing of test costs- Provide for protection of CBI
FFDCA §408(p) does not provide independent authority for EPA procedures
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Legal Authorities
FFDCA §408(i)
– Extension of “FIFRA Protection”
Provides that data submitted in support of a tolerance action are entitled to protection under:
- FIFRA §3 - data compensation provisions- FIFRA §10 - data disclosure provisions
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Legal Authorities
FFDCA §408(f) - Authority To Require Data
Authorizes EPA to require data when “reasonably necessary to support the continuation of a tolerance”
Directs EPA to use FIFRA §3(c)(2)(B) or TSCA §4 whenever possible• Otherwise EPA may publish a FR notice announcing the
need for data and setting a deadline for its submission FFDCA §408(f)(1)(C)
• FFDCA §408(f)(1)(C) FR Notices are directed to everyone Allows for enforcement if the data requirement issued
under FFDCA §408(f) is not satisfied• e.g. EPA may revoke the tolerance for a substance
Expressly authorizes the use of FFDCA §408(f) procedures to obtain EDSP data
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Legal Authorities
FIFRA §3(c)(2)(B) - Authority to Require Data Authorizes EPA to issue Data Call-In (DCI) notices for
additional data necessary to support continued registration FIFRA §3(c)(2)(B) creates procedures that require DCI
recipients to share costs of generating data and to use specific procedures to resolve disputes over a fair way to share costs
Requires that all DCI notices be sent to all registrants to whom the data requirement pertains
Allows enforcement (suspension of registrations) if a registrant fails to comply with DCI notice
• Failures include :- To offer to share costs- To participate in procedures to determine a fair share of costs- To pay a fair share of costs- To generate data),
Data submitted under FIFRA §3(c)(2)(B) becomes compensable under FIFRA §3(c)(1)(F)
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Legal AuthoritiesFIFRA §3(c)(1)(F) - Data Compensation Requires an applicant for registration to provide data to
demonstrate safety of the pesticide proposed for registration Allows an applicant, in certain cases, to cite data submitted
by another person as a way of fulfilling the requirement to provide safety data
“Citable” data are either “exclusive use” or “compensable”• Data get “exclusive use” protection for 10 years from the date of
initial registration of the active ingredient to which the data relate
- Applicants may cite “exclusive use” only with the original data submitter’s permission
• Data are “compensable” for 15 years from the date of submission
- Applicants may cite “compensable” data by making an offer to pay reasonable compensation to the original data submitter
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Legal AuthoritiesFIFRA §3(c)(1)(F) - Data Compensation If an applicant and an original data submitter cannot
agree on reasonable compensation either may initiate binding arbitration to resolve the dispute• Both are bound to accept the arbitrator’s decision
Allows for enforcement if an applicant fails to comply with the FIFRA §3(c)(1)(F) requirements:• EPA may deny an application for a registration or may
cancel an existing registration if registrant:- Fails to make a required offer to pay- Fails to participate in binding arbitration- Fails to pay required compensation
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Legal Authorities
FIFRA §3(c)(2)(D) - “Formulators’ Exemption” Referred to as the “Generic Data Exemption” or
“Formulators’ Exemption” Exempts an applicant from providing data to the extent
that the data would be required to evaluate a registered pesticide product that the applicant buys from another person and uses to make the applicant’s product
EPA administratively determined to extend the “formulators’ exemption” in FIFRA §3(c)(2)(D) to recipients of DCI notices
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Legal Authorities
FIFRA §10(b) & FIFRA §10(g) Prohibits EPA from disclosing to the public trade secret
or confidential business information (CBI)
Prohibits EPA from disclosing information submitted by an applicant or registrant to a person working on behalf of a foreign or multinational pesticide producer
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Legal Authorities
TSCA §4 Authorizes EPA to require testing of a chemical
substance (other than a pesticide) if EPA finds that it either may present an unreasonable risk or may enter the environment in substantial quantities and that the data are needed to assess the risk adequately
Requires EPA to issue a regulation Persons covered by the test rule are required to
develop data jointly Enforcement:
• EPA may impose fines on a person who fails to produce the required data or to comply with other aspects of the test rule