Pesticides; Draft Guidance for Pesticide Registrants on Bee Precautionary Labeling

Résumé

The Agency seeks public comment on a draft Pesticide Registration (PR) Notice entitled "Guidance for Pesticide Registrants on Bee Precautionary Labeling." This draft notice provides guidance to registrants and others concerning EPA's policy on bee labeling statements for pesticide products which are toxic to bees, such as honey bees, alfalfa leaf-cutting bees, alkali bees, and other native and non-indigenous pollinating insects that are important to crop production. The purpose of the proposed label changes is to help ensure that pesticide products used outdoors can be used without posing unnecessary risks of bee mortality. EPA believes that these revisions will make the labeling clearer and more easily understood by pesticide users and by regulatory officials who enforce label provisions.