Banning Sevin?

[Mark Chisholm]

Action(s): EPA released a Revised Interim Reregistration Eligibility Decision Document (IRED) for carbaryl on October 27, 2004. Subsequently, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has formally petitioned the USEPA to revoke or modify all existing
tolerances for the pesticide carbaryl. Their petition requests
cancellation of all carbaryl uses considered for reregistration in the
Revised IRED by EPA. Comment on this petition is open until May 3,
2005. Please copy all responses to US EPA on this issue to Pat
Hastings at hastings@aesop.rutgers.edu as I am cataloguing such issues
for the NEIPM Center- pdh. Thank you.
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> Good Day;
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> EPA issued yesterday the FRN requesting comments on the petition filed by NRDC. You can access the petition on EPA's website - Edocket OPP-2005-0077.
> http://docket.epa.gov/edkpub/do/EDKRegDocketsOpenForComment
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> NRDC is asking the Agency to revoke, or modify all tolerances for carbaryl.
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> Public Comments are due by May 31, 2005.
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> Dhol Herzi
> Office of Pest Management Policy, USDA
> (202) 720-2664; dherzi@usda.gov
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>Resources:
> a.. See Docket OPP-2005-0077as cited above.
> b.. Announcement of Carbaryl Risk Assessment released April 2, 2003: www.pestmanagement.rutgers.edu/NJinPAS/postings/carbarylrisk.pdf
> c.. Announcement of Release of Carbaryl IRED on 6/30/03: www.pestmanagement.rutgers.edu/NJinPAS/postings/carbarylIRED.pdf
> d.. Announcement of October 27, 2004 Release of Revised Carbaryl IRED:http://epa.gov/EPA-PEST/2004/October/Day-27/
> [Federal Register: October 27, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 207)][Notices][Page 62663-62666]
> 5.. See the Revised Carbaryl IRED document itself dated 10/22/04: http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/REDs/carbaryl_ired.pdf
> 6.. Federal Register Notice of NRDC Petition: www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/March/Day-30/p6296.htm[Federal Register: March 30, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 60)][Notices][Page 16281-16283]
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[Chum]

It's a show of law by which petitioning forces a review, and it's overdue.

Knowing intimately the council that has to respond to solicite comment and eventually rule, this panel is now completely industry staffed. There will be no suspension process. They are just abiding by the registration requirements to appease the process.

Minimum exposure data to the dioxin molecules has recently been adjusted upward by 400 parts per million, supplementing ag-chem industry's profits but condemning countless lives, so I wouldn't worry too much for Sevin, although resistance in targets has modified to require a ten-fold increase in concentration effectiveness, the Defense Council knows full well a process to exclude human health effects in future assessements is on the drawing boards at EPA. It's blamed on terrorism, as any doomed democracy cries.

 

[mdvaden]

Considering how individual insects like bees can carry enough Sevin back on themselves and completely kill an entire hive or colony, I'd say that when Sevin is replaced, things will be better-off.

It should be removed off the general consumer shelves at least.

 

[Al57]

Well,that's all fine and dandy but what,pray tell,does a person use to kill tomato worms now.I'm not posting to be a smart alec,it's because I really don't know.Any ideas?

 

[Colin]

Dang! I thought Sevin was some Swede guy that pissed off Tom or Mark!

 

[TreeCo]

Al try BT for your tomato horn worms. It's a safe biological insecticide! There are also BT formulations for your potato beetles.

There are a lot of better and safer chemicals and biologicals than Sevin.

 

[phasthound]

[ QUOTE ]
Well,that's all fine and dandy but what,pray tell,does a person use to kill tomato worms now.I'm not posting to be a smart alec,it's because I really don't know.Any ideas?

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Try this site http://www.ehow.com/how_9366_control-tomato-hornworms.html

There are always options other than pesticides. It does take a bit of rethinking the actual cost of things. It may be quick and "cheap" to spray, but consider all the costs. Pesticides and synthetic fertilizers require a great deal of fossil fuels to produce. Do you think energy prices are high now? In a few years you, will wish you could get gas for only $3.00 per gallon. There are many studies that prove links to health problems due to pesticides. Do you think your health insurance is high now? Just wait.

There are other ways that we can use to maintain healthy plants without causing so much damage.

phasthound

 

[Chum]

Warms my heart to read sensible thoughts regarding pesticide issues.

It's high time we question more things, obviously.