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Sulfuryl Fluoride
Note:
Dow has two sulfuryl fluoride products:
ProFume -used to fumigate food.
Vikane - used to fumigate
structures
| Date |
Federal
Register Docket Number |
Details |
| July
15, 2005 |
OPP-2005-0174 |
EPA
issues a Final Rule for new fluoride residue tolerances for
219 food commodities.
See
- Final
Rule in Federal Register
- EPA's
response to comments submitted on Dow's March 4, 2005, Petition
- Comparison
of residue tolerances: Dow Petition vs. Final Rule
With this
Final Rule, tolerances are established in association with
the use of sulfuryl fluoride for over 219 food commodities
"as a result of the treatment of areas and equipment
within food and feed processing plants with sulfuryl fluoride
for the control of insects. The term
food and feed processing plant
includes those facilities specifically listed under the Food
and Feed Processing Plants subgroup within
pesticide use site group 12 in Appendix A to 40 CFR part 158."
Food
and feed processing plants include:
http://www.setonresourcecenter.com/cfr/40CFR/P158_050.HTM
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Food and feed processing plants
• Bakeries
• Bottlers
• Canneries
• Dairies, creameries, milk processing plants
• Feed mills, feed stores
• Fresh fruit packing and processing
• Meat processing
• Poultry processing
• Wineries, wine cellars
• Flour mills, machinery, warehouses, bins,
elevators
• Egg processing
• Candy and confectionary plants
• Sugar processing, cane mills, etc.
• Cider mills
• Dry food products plants
• Tobacco processing
• Air treatment for processing and transportation
of foods
• Beverage processing
• Nut processing
• Cereal processing
• Seafood processing
• Vegetable oil processing
• Spice mills
• Vinegar processing
• Farinaceous processing (noodles, etc.)
• Mushroom processing
• Dried fruit processing
• Pickle processing
• Ice plants
• Chocolate processing
• Fruit juice processing
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| June
4, 2005 |
-no
docket- |
FAN received
EPA's response to the Objections and Request for Hearing submitted
on the January 2004 Final Rule for the first-time use of sulfuryl
fluoride as a fumigant on stored food. |
| April
19, 2005 |
OPP-2005-0067-0019 |
Comments
submitted to US EPA on Dow's petition for tolerances for over
600 food commodities (Docket No. OPP-2005-0067). See EPA's
response to comments. |
| March
4, 2005 |
OPP-2005-0067 |
Dow AgroSciences
petition to EPA for several new food tolerances.
See the food tolerances approved
and petitioned for as of March 4, 2005 |
| March
23, 2004 |
OPP-2003-0373-0010 |
Additional
comments and corrections to initial submission of Objections
and Request for a Hearing on the Jan 23, 2004, Final Rule. |
| March
23, 2004 |
OPP-2003-0373-0009 |
Objections and a Request for a
Hearing submitted to EPA by FAN and Beyond Pesticides on the
Jan 23, 2004, Final Rule. |
Jan
23, 2004
|
OPP-2003-0373 |
FINAL
RULE. This
regulation establishes the highest tolerances for residues
of sulfuryl
fluoride and inorganic fluoride from postharvest fumigation
uses "in or on food" in US history.
EPA sets a precedent by allowing a dosage of fluoride for
infants that is five times higher than for adults.
EPA announces
that Dow withdrew the Experimental
Use Permit because
"the
California Department of Pesticide Regulation has not issued
the necessary state authorization to allow the EUP to proceed..."
EPA also
states that because the EUP has been withdrawn by Dow, the
objections submitted by FAN are moot. However, EPA
publishes 5
documents in response to FAN's objections. |
| Sept
9, 2003 |
-no
docket- |
Switzerland: Dow
AgroSciences replacement for methyl bromide, received its first
ever full commercial approval. The Swiss authorities
have cleared sulfuryl fluoride for use as a space fumigant in
empty flour mills, food storage facilities and grain silos. |
| April
8, 2002 |
OPP-301166A |
FAN submits
objections to
EPA's Feb 7, 2002, Temporary Pesticide
Tolerances. |
| March
27, 2002 |
62719-EUP-45 |
Experimental
Use Permit.
Final Rule. Federal Register. |
| March
18, 2002 |
PF-1068 |
FAN submits
objections to Dow's petition of Feb 15, 2002. |
| Feb
15, 2002 |
PF-1068 |
Petition
by Dow to establish fluoride and sulfuryl fluoride tolerances
for 40 raw and processed foods. |
| February
7, 2002 |
OPP-301166A |
EPA approves
Temporary Pesticide Tolerances to support
an Experimental Use Permit for sulfuryl fluoride on 2
commodities. Final Rule. Federal Register.
Fluoride tolerances: raisins 30.0 ppm; walnuts 12.0 ppm. |
| Jan
5, 2002 |
-no
docket- |
Pittsburg, California:
Dow Chemical is considering a $40 million to $50 million upgrade
to its [sulfuryl fluoride] plant here, a move that could herald
a tripling of its capacity to produce a pesticide used against
termites and pests that attack strawberries... |
| Sept
29, 2001 |
-no
docket- |
Comments submitted to US EPA from Ellen Connett
on the Proposed Pesticide Temporary Tolerances published on
September 5, 2001. |
| Sept
5, 2001 |
OPP-301166 |
Dow
AgroSciences: Proposed Pesticide
Temporary Tolerances for fluoride and sulfuryl fluoride residues
on walnuts and raisins from post harvest fumigation.
As the fluoride anion is the endpoint of toxicological
concern for sulfuryl fluoride, EPA presents an updated tox
profile on fluoride. |
| June
15, 2001 |
PF-1030 |
Dow
AgroSciences petitions US EPA to
establish a Tolerance for Fluoride and Sulfuryl fluoride on
walnuts; also petitions for an Exemption for fluoride tolerances
on raisins. |
• See All
Food tolerances approved as of July 15, 2005
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