The expected proposal follows a court ruling that tossed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ban on the pesticide, called chlorpyrifos.
The EPA said this week that would “expeditiously” propose a new rule to ban all of the uses of the substance, except for 11 that were identified in the court ruling.
It noted those 11 uses comprise 55 percent of chlorpyrifos’s total usage between 2014 and 2018.
Asked whether a ban could eventually be reimposed on the 11 uses of chlorpyrifos that will be permitted, an EPA spokesperson told The Hill on Thursday that the remaining uses will be reviewed.
“All uses of chlorpyrifos — both food and non-food — are going through registration review right now,” said spokesperson Jeff Landis.
“The 11 food uses will continue on that path, which we anticipate will include human health risk mitigation, such as updated personal protection equipment and engineering controls,” Landis added
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