1. What is chlorpyrifos, and how is it used? Chlorpyrifos is an inexpensive and effective pesticide that has been on the market since 1965. According to the EPA, approximately 5.1 million pounds of ...

Building on human health risk claims found in the Notice of Data Availability (NODA) prepublication, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving toward revoking all food tolerances for the ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially reinstated all tolerances for chlorpyrifos on February 5, 2024, undoing a prior rule that had halted chlorpyrifos use on all food and feed ...

EPA announced its decision to allow the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on crops, including soybeans, following a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit last month. The court ...

On Dec. 12, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule to revoke the tolerances associated with all but the 11 food and feed crop uses identified in the agency’s 2020 proposed interim ...

(Beyond Pesticides, October 10, 2024) On September 16, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an order allowing Kaizen Technologies LLC to sell off its chlorpyrifos-based ...

Recently, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a rule to revoke most food crop tolerances for chlorpyrifos, a pesticide extensively used in agriculture. This decision comes after the ...

Six states, including California and New York, have sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its decision to allow continued use of chlorpyrifos, alleging the agency did not adequately ensure ...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Dec. 19 announced it will propose allowing the use of chlorpyrifos on 11 crops, rather than continue battling in court to prohibit the insecticide entirely. The ...

Bending to a judge’s order, the Environmental Protection Agency banned all use of the insecticide chlorpyrifos on food crops. In a brief statement accompanying a prepublication version of the final ...