October 6, 2008

ISSUE 1239

WFFVA’s Environmental and Pest Management Division has issued a bulletin to producer members urging those who fumigate soil as part of their production practices to review and comment on the EPA’s proposed label changes for several active ingredients. The changes are designed to mitigate bystander and occupation exposure during fumigation and off-gassing.

The label changes, outlined in the EPA’s Reregistration Eligibility Decisions, are for these registered fumigant active ingredients: methyl bromide, chloropicrin, metam-sodium, metam-potassium, and methyl isothiocyanate (MITC), and dazomet. In FFVA’s opinion, the requirements as drafted would preclude the use of the products in question in many situations. FFVA has collected the information needed to provide comments and made them available on its Web site, www.ffva.com. Please click here.

For more information, contact the Environmental and Pest Management Division at (321) 214-5200.