The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made available detailed summaries of the suite of safety measures included in the Agency’s July 2008 Reregistration Eligibility Decisions (REDs) for the soil fumigants chloropicrin, dazomet, metam sodium/metam potassium (including MITC), and methyl bromide.

Fact sheets available on the Agency’s soil fumigants Web site summarize the following risk mitigation measures found in all of the fumigant REDs:
- Buffer zones
- Posting buffer zones
- Fumigant management plans
- Emergency preparedness and response
- Worker protection measures

When new fumigant product labels appear in the market-place around 2010, fumigant users will need to comply with these requirements.

EPA is accepting public comment until Sept. 15 on implementation of the risk mitigation measures.

For additional information, please see the Agency’s July 16, 2008, Federal Register notice announcing these decisions, and the Web page on risk mitigation measures for the soil fumigants: http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/reregistration/soil_fumigants/.

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