Industry Uncertainty Follows EPA’s Chlorpyrifos-in-Food Ban (3)

Farmers, food processors, and pesticide manufacturers are scrambling to figure out how to comply with the EPA’s recent decision to forbid in food any trace of a pesticide that’s already been sprayed on crops, CropLife America’s CEO told Bloomberg Law.

The Environmental Protection Agency, in issuing the chlorpyrifos decision Aug. 18, bucked its normal practice of working with pesticide makers and farmers to phase out the uses of pesticide and then cut the amount that’s allowed on food.

Its final rule revokes in six months all legally allowable amounts, or “tolerances,” to achieve its goal of “ending the use of ...