Today, the EPA posted in the Federal Register an Emergency Order suspending the Registrations of All Pesticide Products Containing Dimethyl Tetrachloroterephthalate (DCPA). We will include the link to the official document at the end of the article.
The notice says in the II. Emergency Order paragraph the following:
“Effective immediately, no person in any state may distribute, sell, offer for sale, hold for sale, ship, deliver for shipment, or receive and (having so received) deliver or offer to deliver to any person any pesticide product containing DCPA. Additionally, in accordance with FIFRA section 6(a)(1), EPA has elected not to permit the continued use of existing stocks, consistent with its policies applicable to cancellations where the Agency has identified significant risk concerns. See 56 FR 29362, 29367, June 26, 1991 (FRL-3845-4)”.
Also, the same paragraph in the document states clearly: “Accordingly, this Emergency Order expressly prohibits any person from using any pesticide product containing DCPA for any purpose. However, EPA will allow continued distribution of existing stocks of DCPA for the express purpose of returning any DCPA product to the registrant of such products”.
You can find and download the document posted in the journal today following this link:
https://live-azs-vegetableipmupdates.pantheonsite.io/sites/default/files/2024-08/240807_EPA_DCPA_ORDER_2024-17431.pdf
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