2. REGISTRATION UPDATE Topics for today... Products Without Signal Words Minimum Risk Pesticides VBFieldApps System Pheromone Registration Odds and Ends

3. LABELS WITH NO SIGNAL WORD Certain pesticides no longer required to have a signal word. Final Rule issued December 14, 2001. Toxicity Category IV for all routes of exposure. Registrant has option to use “CAUTION”.

4. Mild or Slight at 72 Hours No Irritation >20 mg/liter >20,000 mg/kg >5000 mg/kg Oral LD 50 Dermal LD 50 Eye Irritation Inhalation LC 50 Skin Irritation LABELS WITH NO SIGNAL WORD

5. Also known as “25(b)” pesticides. Federal registration not required. Only 31 possible active ingredients. Only “List 4A” inert ingredients or “commonly consumed foods”. Pesticide claim = Registration in NC MINIMUM RISK PESTICIDES Factoids:

6. MINIMUM RISK PESTICIDES VBFieldApps Lookup: No EPA registration number Search by Brand Name and/or Company Name System searches exactly as entered

7. VBFIELDAPPS SYSTEM VBFieldApps Lookup: Search for Reg# 498-179. Results will also include sub-registered products. State Wide Stop Sale banner misleading. A product with Reg# under stop sale. Might not be the one currently displayed on results form.

8. VBFIELDAPPS SYSTEM VBFieldApps Lookup: Status field currently displays “Not on file” for new registrations. Should display “New”. “Number of Samples Taken” field name is misleading. Will change to “Times Sampled During Year Shown Above”.

9. VBFIELDAPPS SYSTEM VBFieldApps Lookup: Product was found to be not registered, due to inspector’s “Check Reg.” request. Stop Sale letter was then sent by Registration Unit. Product name was also added to statewide Stop Sales list. Product name pulls up when entered into VbFieldApps “Stop Sales field” (as it should)

10. VBFIELDAPPS SYSTEM VBFieldApps Lookup: Product name typed into Product Registration Field “No Record Found” This field should also be showing that the product is on statewide Stop Sale list currently; therefore.... Double-check name in the Stop Sale side of system.

11. PHEROMONE PRODUCTS 40 CFR 152.25(b) “Pheromones and identical or substantially similar compounds labeled for use only in pheromone traps” are not required to be registered. Nonetheless, some are federally registered. Do they need to be registered in North Carolina?

12. PHEROMONE PRODUCTS Do they need to be registered in NC? Definition of a pesticide: A. Any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest, and B. Any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant. Pheromones used in traps attract the pest to the trap.

13. PHEROMONE PRODUCTS Do they need to be registered in NC? Our policy: Attracting a pest to a trap ≠ Pesticidal activity. Attraction ≠ Demise of the pest. Glue, holding bag, electrical current, pesticide ingredient, etc. mitigates the pest. Not EPA registered = Not NC registered. Pheromone + Pesticide = Registration in NC EPA Registered = NC Registered

14. PHEROMONE PRODUCTS Do they need to be registered in NC? Mating disruptants: –They do, on their own, act as the mitigating substance. –Do meet the definition of a pesticide. –NC registration required.

15. ODDS & ENDS

16. ODDS AND ENDS Multiple transcripts: - Different sizes or batch numbers. - Only one transcript is needed for registration purposes. Recommendation: - Product not found in VBFieldApps. - Don’t place under immediate stop sale. - Send in Check Reg transcript OR call us.

17. ODDS AND ENDS Emergency Exemptions (Sec. 18): - Alto (cyproconazole) - Quadris Xtra (cyproconazole + azoxystrobin) - Caramba (metconazole) - Punch (flusilazole) - Topguard (flutriafol) Special Local Need Registrations: - Two pending for use on hemlocks to control hemlock woolly adelgid. - CoreTect (imidacloprid) - Safari (dinotefuran)

18. REGISTRATION UPDATE QUESTIONS?

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