More than a quarter of pesticides used by U.S. farmers are banned in the European Union. Atrazine which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates to be the most widely used herbicide in the U.S., for instance, was banned in the
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Prop 65 Battle Royale over Glyphosate: EPA vs. OEHHA
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The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), which administers Proposition 65, wasted no time in punching back at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which declared, in an August 8 press release, that Prop 65 labeling identifying the…
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Pesticide Enforcement Alert: EPA Targeting On-Line Sales
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Consistent with consumer trends and the ever-increasing role of internet sales, U.S. EPA is targeting on-line pesticide sales as an enforcement priority. In a preview of the anticipated April 1 release of preliminary agency enforcement priorities, Acting Deputy Director of…
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