USA: Chlorpyrifos Tolerance Revocations

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting comments on additional information obtained and developed by EPA in conjunction with the proposed tolerance revocation for chlorpyrifos.EPA is accepting comments on the information and analysis, as well as reopening comment on any other aspect of the proposal or the underlying support documents that were previously available for comment. The Agency continues to seek comment on possible mitigation strategies, namely, use deletions, that might allow EPA to retain a small subset of existing chlorpyrifos food uses.The deadline for comments is January 17, 2017.Federal Register Vol. 81, No. 222. Tuesday, November 17, 2016. Pages 81049-81052