In August, PFB submitted comments in support of EPA's favorable risk assessment for the triazine herbicides. PFB noted the importance of these herbicides to Pennsylvania farmers' weed management programs, especially in the context of no-till farming.
In June, EPA issued a statement concluding that ".there is a reasonable certainty that no harm will result to the general U.S. population, infants, children or other major identifiable subgroups of consumers from aggregate exposure.to cumulative residues of atrazine and the other chlorinated triazine pesticides."
EPA also released a Reregistration Eligibility Decision for simazine and a tolerance assessment for propazine.
These actions, along with the close of the public comment period, bring the special review of the trazine pesticides to an end. EPA indicated that grower involvement in the traizine review process was unprecedented, with more than thirty commodity groups represented.
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