For Release: April 17, 2015

Beginning in March 2015, EPA began converting the format of the Pesticide Product Information System (PPIS) flat files to Extensible Markup Language (XML). XML is one of today’s modern standards for making large amounts of data available for reuse by others.  It provides a simple and common format that facilitates accessing and using data in applications built by outside parties. XML files are readable by both computers and people.

We invite interested parties to submit comments on the beta version of the XML files in order to improve them. We will accept comments through August 2015. Our goal is to end posting fixed-width flat text files by September 1, 2016.

Disclaimer: Please note that this is a beta version of the PPIS XML files and is still undergoing final testing before its official release. 

Interested parties can access a link to the beta version of PPIS on the PPIS Download Product Information Data Web page. 

Please send comments on XML files to EPA at OPPChemicalSearch@epa.gov by the end of August 2015. 

If you have any questions regarding XML structure, please contact Mark Heflin at Heflin.Mark@epa.gov. For any data quality issues, please contact Adrienne Turner at Turner.Adriene@epa.gov.