The EPA has amended several pesticide crop groupings that are open to public comment.
Ed Messina, director of EPA’s pesticide program, says his office works to ensure growers have the tools they need to address pest pressures making sure pesticides are approved in a responsible way.
“The crop grouping rule allows industry to submit studies and reduce the number of studies they need to submit because we group those commodities together.”
For example, Messina tells Brownfield Ag News, “If you’re eating quinoa, which many Americans are eating more of, we’ve incorporated that into the wheat group.
