USEPA provides new list of ingredients that are exempt from pesticide registration.  You can legally make your own "pesticides"

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Subject:   You can legally make your own "pesticides"----
Date:      Tue, 08 Aug 2000 07:47:48 -0400
From:        Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

To:     Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
          Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation 

Dear Mr. Helliker, I have not heard from you regarding my question may pest control operators "legally" use unregistered alternatives to control pest problems in California?  I though you might like to read about a new regulation started in 1996 by EPA. The first link below is the original list of exempted active ingredients and the second link is the list of exempted inerts.

 http://www.epa.gov/docs/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/1996/March/Day-06/pr-577.html http://www.epa.gov/oppbppd1/biopesticides/otherdocs/list4adocs.htm

What EPA has done is create a new class of "pesticides and herbicides" that applicators and growers can use to write their own labels while buying the raw materials through suppliers saving as much as 90% The list contains some fifty active and about 150 inert ingredients.  There are some rules such as you must list all ingredients on the label and there can be no medical or health claims such as protection against lyme disease, etc.

As EPA states their reasons for such a move and they are quite compelling.  They state that other materials that fit the criteria will be added to the list in the future (there are 7000 compounds in the FDA approved for use in food book).  There has been a huge protest from two groups the manufactures of "registered" POISONS and some state pesticide "regulators" in addition to FDA.

BTW these pesticides are exempt from all FIFRA regulations including applicator licenses, pesticide use reports, disposal regulations and they are exempted from recently enforced advertising regulations of FIFRA e.g., that do not allow the word safe and pesticide in the same sentence.

There is now a move to re-evaluate the decision, see the last link. http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2000/May/Day-24/p12960.htm

Well, Mr. Helliker, are you for safe alternatives or are you going to try to "re-evaluate" this decision?  We await your answers or will we get more SILENCE?

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