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Pesticide Registration Information • Pesticide Label and Tolerance Information
Paths to Pesticide Registration • Fact Sheets and Publications
Comment Coordinator: USDA/EPA Information Requests • Other Resources

Pesticide Registration Information

• State Departments of Agriculture, Pesticide Divisions
  Laws, rules, registration requirements/forms, worker safety, and other general and state-specific pesticide issues.
  • Idaho
  • Oregon
  • Washington
• EPA Region 10
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Pacific Northwest Web site.

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Pesticide Label and Tolerance Information

• PICOL Label and Tolerance Databases
  This searchable database enables users to find information on pesticide labels specific to various crops and pests in Washington and Oregon.
• Kelly Registration
  Provides registrants the ability to electronically submit registration/application renewals and upload state-required documentation such as product labels and MSDSs. To search for labels for Washington or Idaho, click on the "State Data Search" link at the bottom of the left-hand menu, then click that state on the map.
• Electronic Label Sources
  Several resources are available for viewing pesticide labels. (Not all labels are registered in Washington State.) Some labels are PDF files and will require Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you may download free of charge. All labels are for informational purposes only and cannot be used in place of the actual container label.
  • CDMS - Crop Data Managment Systems, Inc.
  • Greenbook Free Label Search, (c) Chemical & Pharmaceutical Press
  • PNN - Pesticide Notification Network, Washington section 18 and 24c labels only.
  • Pesticide Product Label System (PPLS), a collection of images, in TIFF format, of pesticide labels which have been approved by EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs.
• International Maximum Residue Limit (MRL) Database
  Developed by CropLife America, this free, searchable database provides an export planning tool for U.S. specialty crop growers.
• FASonline International Pesticide Application Database
  USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) offers this menu-driven MRL database, allowing users to search by Crop, Pesticide Type, PHI, and Country.
• National Pesticide Information Retrieval System (NPIRS)
  EPA's searchable pesticide product database offers brief registration information on some 90,000 products.

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Paths to Pesticide Registration

• WSDA Pesticide Page
  Washington State Department of Agriculture is responsible for the registration of pesticides in Washington State, including all insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, nematicides, disinfectants, germicides, biocides, plant regulators, defoliants, desiccants and spray adjuvants. Also connects to the laws and rules (RCWs and WACs) governing pesticides in Washington.
• Washington State Commission on Pesticide Registration (WSCPR)
  WSCPR assists users of pesticides in obtaining and maintaining pesticide registrations for minor uses in Washington State by allocating funding to research or service projects directed toward solving applied, real-world pest management problems.
• IR-4 Program
  The Interregional Research Project #4 (IR-4) is a federal/state/private cooperative that aspires to obtain clearances for pest control chemistries on minor crops.
  • Douglas B. Walsh, Washington State IR-4 Liaison
  • National IR-4 Web site

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Fact Sheets and Publications

• WSU Extension Publications Concerning Pesticides
  This link takes you to the main home page for WSU Extension publications. From there, use the search feature or click on the Agriculture folder then the link for Pest Control, Pesticides, or Pesticide Training.

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Comment Coordinator: USDA/EPA Information Requests
Response packages (and other correspondence) from Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Utah based on USDA/EPA requests for information about the use of certain pesticides in Pacific Northwest states.

Other Resources

• Aquatic Pesticide Permits in Washington
  Washington State Department of Ecology's aquatic pesticide permits page includes information on controlling mosquito larvae, Gypsy moths, noxious weeds, nuisance plants, and algae.
• National Pesticide Information Center
  NPIC is a source of factual chemical, health, and environmental information about more than 600 pesticide active ingredients incorporated into over 50,000 different products registered for use in the United States since 1947.
• The EXtension TOXicology NETwork (EXTOXNET)
  Fully searchable, selectively retrievable, and unbiased information on pesticides presented in a form understandable by the non-expert.
• Department of Health Pesticide Program
  Washington State DOH investigates reports of suspected pesticide poisonings in agricultural and non-agricultural settings. Links to Pesticide Incident Reporting and Tracking (PIRT) panel and its annual report.
• Oregon Department of Agriculture Pesticides Division
• WaPCA Pesticide Container Disposal
  Recycling and disposal of plastic pesticide containers through Washington Pest Consultants Association.
• WSDA Waste Pesticide Disposal Program
  How and where you can dispose of expired, unused, or unidentifiable pesticides legally, safely, and without cost.

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