Tag: pesticide
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EPA Revokes All U.S. Food Tolerances for Pesticide Carbofuran
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signed a final rule that will prohibit carbofuran residue in fruits and vegetables. The agency is also canceling all existing carbofuran registrations. Effective January 1, 2010, the rule will apply to both domestic and imported produce, including alfalfa, barley, beets, corn, cranberries, cucumbers, grapes, peppers, rice, soybeans, and wheat.…
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Pew Environment Group Asks FDA to Apply Drug Rules to All Imported Farmed Salmon
According to the Environment Group of the Pew Charitable Trusts, salmon farming companies producing fish for export to the United States from Canada, Norway and Scotland are using pesticides and antibiotics that do not appear on the FDA/CVM Approved Drugs in Aquaculture list. In an April 23, 2009, letter to the acting Food and Drug…
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Two Bellwether Nicaraguan Pesticide-Exposure Cases Found Fraudulent and Dismissed
The pesticide-exposure claims of Nicaraguan banana-plantation workers were dismissed in two cases after a hearing that began April 21, 2009, in a state court in Los Angeles, California. Meija v. Dole Food Co., No. BC340049 (Cal. Super. Ct., Los Angeles Cty.); Rivera v. Dole Food Co., No. BC379820 (Cal. Super. Ct., Los Angeles Cty.). Additional…
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McDonald’s to Cut Pesticides in Domestic Potato Supply
In response to a shareholder resolution, McDonald’s Corp. this week reportedly agreed to take preliminary steps to reduce pesticide use in its domestic potato supply. According to a news source, the fast-food chain will survey its U.S. potato suppliers, compile a list of best practices in pesticide-use reduction and recommend those practices to global suppliers.…
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Court Orders Banana-Plantation Litigants to Address Potential Termination of Litigation
A California judge has reportedly ordered the parties to litigation over the exposure of banana-plantation workers to a pesticide that allegedly caused their sterility to explain why two lawsuits should not be dismissed as a sanction for the alleged misconduct of the plaintiffs and their lawyers. Mejia v. Dole, No. BC340049 (Cal. Super. Ct., Los…
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Cal/EPA Air Resources Board Solicits Research Concepts
The Air Resources Board (ARB) of California’s Environmental Protection Agency has published a request for research concepts for its 2009-2010 annual research plan. Among the general areas of research that ARB would like to fund are issues related to agriculture and to health and exposure. The deadline for concept submissions is January 20, 2009. Due…
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Comment Sought on Petition for Nanoscale Silver Rulemaking
EPA has published a notice seeking public comment on a petition filed by a number of environmental and consumer interest groups calling on the agency to classify nano-silver as a pesticide, require “formal pesticide registration of all products containing nanoscale silver, analyze the potential human health and environmental risks of nanoscale silver, [and] take regulatory…
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James Andreasen & Christopher McDonald, “Agricultural Sustainability Standards Could Affect You,” Pork Exec, November 2008
SHB Tort lawyers James Andreasen and Christopher McDonald have co-authored an article that discusses developments in the drafting of an agricultural sustainability standard under the auspices of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Noting that the initial draft, “if finalized, could have broad-reaching impact,” the authors observe that a number of stakeholders have already “expressed…