EPA Seeks Comments on End to FIFRA Exemption for Insecticide-Treated Seeds

The Environmental Protection Agency seeks comments on a petition to amend its regulations to end an exemption for seeds treated with systemic insecticides from registration and labeling requirements under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), it said. The petition says EPA has misinterpreted the FIFRA treated article exemption to apply to seeds treated with systemic insecticides intended to kill pests of the plants, and should enforce FIFRA’s registration and labeling requirements for such products. Comments are due March 26.