NAEPC Bulletin Board

EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs - 12/01/2011

IN THIS UPDATE:

EPA Announces Conditional Registration of Nanosilver Pesticide Product

EPA is conditionally registering a pesticide product containing
nanosilver as a new active ingredient. The antimicrobial pesticide
product, HeiQ AGS-20, is a silver-based product for use as a
preservative for textiles. As a condition of registration, EPA is
requiring additional data on the product to confirm EPA’s assessment
that the product will not cause unreasonable adverse effects on human
health or the environment, the general standard for a registration under
the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.

By way of background, on August 12, 2010, EPA posted a Proposed
Conditional Registration to the docket for public comment. EPA received
45 public comments, and responses to these comments along with the
decision document to conditionally register the product can be found at
www.regulations.gov in Docket ID # EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-1012. A description
of the additional studies and timeline when the data must be submitted
is also available in the docket.