REGISTRATION UPDATE

Topics for today. . .

• Products Without Signal Words

• Minimum Risk Pesticides

• VBFieldApps System

• Pheromone Registration

• Odds and Ends

LABELS WITH NO SIGNAL WORD

• Certain pesticides no longer required to have a signal word.

• Final Rule issued December 14, 2001.

• Toxicity Category IV for all routes of exposure.

• Registrant has option to use “CAUTION”.

Mild or Slight at 72 Hours

No Irritation

>20 mg/liter

>20,000 mg/kg

>5000 mg/kgOral LD50

Dermal LD50

Eye Irritation

Inhalation LC50

Skin Irritation

LABELS WITH NO SIGNAL WORD

• Also known as “25(b)” pesticides.

• Federal registration not required.

• Only 31 possible active ingredients.

• Only “List 4A” inert ingredients or “commonly consumed foods”.

• Pesticide claim = Registration in NC

MINIMUM RISK PESTICIDES

Factoids:

MINIMUM RISK PESTICIDES VBFieldApps Lookup:

• No EPA registration number

• Search by Brand Name and/or Company Name

• System searches exactly as entered

VBFIELDAPPS SYSTEM VBFieldApps Lookup:

• Search for Reg# 498-179.

• Results will also include sub-registered products.

• State Wide Stop Sale banner misleading.

• A product with Reg# under stop sale.

• Might not be the one currently displayed on results form.

VBFIELDAPPS SYSTEM VBFieldApps Lookup:

• Status field currently displays “Not on file” for new registrations.

• Should display “New”.

• “Number of Samples Taken” field name is misleading.

• Will change to “Times Sampled During Year Shown Above”.

VBFIELDAPPS SYSTEM VBFieldApps Lookup:

• Product was found to be not registered, due to inspector’s “Check Reg.” request.

• Stop Sale letter was then sent by Registration Unit.

• Product name was also added to statewide Stop Sales list.

• Product name pulls up when entered into VbFieldApps “Stop Sales field” (as it should)

VBFIELDAPPS SYSTEM VBFieldApps Lookup:

• Product name typed into Product Registration Field

• “No Record Found”

• This field should also be showing that the product is on statewide Stop Sale list currently; therefore....

Double-check name in the Stop Sale side of system.

PHEROMONE PRODUCTS

• 40 CFR 152.25(b)

“Pheromones and identical or substantially similar compounds labeled for use only in pheromone traps” are not required to be registered.

• Nonetheless, some are federally

registered.

• Do they need to be registered

in North Carolina?

PHEROMONE PRODUCTS

Do they need to be registered in NC?

• Definition of a pesticide:

A. Any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest, and

B. Any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant.

• Pheromones used in traps attract the pest to the trap.

PHEROMONE PRODUCTS

Do they need to be registered in NC?Our policy:

• Attracting a pest to a trap ≠ Pesticidal activity.

• Attraction ≠ Demise of the pest.

• Glue, holding bag, electrical current, pesticide ingredient, etc. mitigates the pest.

• Not EPA registered = Not NC registered.

• Pheromone + Pesticide = Registration in NC

• EPA Registered = NC Registered

PHEROMONE PRODUCTS

Do they need to be registered in NC?

• Mating disruptants:– They do, on their own, act as the

mitigating substance.

– Do meet the definition of a pesticide.

– NC registration

required.

ODDS & ENDS

ODDS AND ENDS

• Multiple transcripts:

- Different sizes or batch numbers.

- Only one transcript is needed for registration purposes.

• Recommendation:

- Product not found in VBFieldApps.

- Don’t place under immediate stop sale.

- Send in Check Reg transcript OR call us.

ODDS AND ENDS

• Emergency Exemptions (Sec. 18):- Alto (cyproconazole)- Quadris Xtra (cyproconazole + azoxystrobin)- Caramba (metconazole)- Punch (flusilazole)- Topguard (flutriafol)

• Special Local Need Registrations:

- Two pending for use on hemlocks to control hemlock woolly adelgid.

- CoreTect (imidacloprid)

- Safari (dinotefuran)

REGISTRATION UPDATE

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