[ascct] Fwd: Pesticide Program Update: EPA Announces New Guidance and Policies for an Integrated Approach to Pesticide Testing and Assessment
- From: Kristie Sullivan <KSullivan@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "ascct@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ascct@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 16:50:58 -0400
Dear Colleagues,
You may be interested in the following new guidances from EPA's Office of
Pesticide Programs. I will specifically highlight the finalization of a
previous pilot policy to use a non-animal approach to classify the eye
irritation potential for antimicrobial products with cleaning claims.
Regards,
Kristie
Kristie Sullivan
Secretary, ASCCT
www.ascctox.org<http://www.ascctox.org>
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EPA Pesticide Program Updates
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From EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs
www.epa.gov/pesticides<http://www.epa.gov/pesticides>
June 6, 2013
In This Update:
EPA Announces New Guidance and Policies for an Integrated Approach to Pesticide
Testing and Assessment
The EPA is announcing the release of five new policies and guidance documents
to advance the Pesticide Program’s (OPP) “Strategic Direction for New Pesticide
Testing and Assessment
Approaches<http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/science/testing-assessment.html>.” The
EPA is developing and evaluating new technologies in molecular, cellular and
computational sciences to supplement or replace more traditional methods of
toxicity testing and risk assessment. This document creates a framework for
hypothesis-based, systematic integration of exposure and hazard information to
assess pesticide risk. OPP’s strategic direction is consistent with the 2007
and 2009 National Research Council reports, “Toxicity Testing in the 21st
Century: A Vision and a Strategy” and “Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk
Assessment.” These actions are significant milestones toward the agency’s
longer term vision for a paradigm shift to 21st Century science.
OPP’s new guidance for employees complements and strengthens existing guidance
for ecological and human health risk assessment. Together, they are designed to
optimize the use of existing knowledge, to provide consistency in our data
collection process, and to help our scientists focus on the data needed to
reliably support registration decisions that protect public health and the
environment while avoiding the generation and evaluation of data that does not
materially influence the scientific certainty of a regulatory decision. These
guidance documents include:
* “Guiding Principles for Data
Requirements<http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/regulating/data-require-guide-principle.pdf>”
will help guide the identification of data needs for the registration of new
pesticides and uses and re-evaluation of existing pesticide uses.
* The “Part 158 Toxicology Data Requirements: Guidance for Neurotoxicity
Battery, Subchronic Inhalation, Subchronic Dermal and Immunotoxicity
Studies<http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/regulating/part158-tox-data-requirement.pdf>”
provides guidance for conducting a weight-of-the-evidence-based evaluation of
data needs and requests for waiver. It also addresses how to incorporate the
determination into the risk assessment.
* OPP’s Guidance for Selecting, Identifying and Evaluating Open Literature
Studies<http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/science/literature-studies.html> in
ecological and human health risk assessments provide guidance for staff in
their evaluation of open literature studies of pesticides.
The Pesticide Program is also announcing two new policies that will reduce
animal testing through the use of state-of-the-science methods for a more
effective and efficient testing and assessment paradigm for chemical risk
management:
* The EPA will now accept an alternate testing framework for classification
of eye irritation potential for labeling EPA-registered antimicrobial pesticide
products with cleaning claims in lieu of the currently used animal test. This
new policy, Use of an Alternate Testing Framework for Classification of Eye
Irritation Potential of EPA Pesticide
Products<http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/science/eye-irritation.html> follows a
successful pilot program launched in 2009.
* Our new policy on Combining Genotoxicity Testing with Standard Repeated
Dose Toxicology
Testing<http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/science/integrating-gentox-studies.html>.
encourages the incorporation of genotoxicity endpoints into routine toxicology
studies where scientifically feasible.
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citizens who have expressed an interest in the agency's pesticide program
activities and decisions. This update service is part of EPA’s continuing
effort to improve public access to federal pesticide information.
For general questions on pesticides and pesticide poisoning prevention, contact
the National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC), toll-free, at:
1-800-858-7378, by E-mail at npic@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:npic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, or,
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To report an environmental violation, visit EPA’s website at
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For information about ongoing activities in the Office of Pesticide Programs,
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Telephone 703-305-5017 or write us directly at Communication Services Branch,
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