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EPA Seeking Comment on Disclosing Pesticide Ingredients

OMB Watch (Dec 22 2009)

The EPA is accepting public comments on its proposal to require pesticide manufacturers to label pesticide ingredients. Currently, pesticide makers must label the "active" ingredients in a pesticide, but they are not required to identify so-called inert ingredients. "Inerts" often are toxic or otherwise harmful substances in their own right.