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Pesticide News Story: EPA Announces Atrazine Scientific Advisory Panel Meeting & Seeks Nominations for Panel Members
For Release: July 11, 2007
As announced in the Federal Register on June 29, 2007, there will be a 4-day meeting of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP) October 9 - 12, 2007, to consider and review a set of issues pertaining to the potential for atrazine to affect amphibian gonadal development. The Agency will present its second White Paper covering the results of the registrant's amphibian studies conducted in 2005 - 2006. In addition, EPA has continued to review the open literature studies investigating whether atrazine exposure affects amphibian gonadal development. For the SAP meeting, EPA plans to include only those studies published in the open scientific literature that tested atrazine alone and examined atrazine's potential effects on amphibian gonadal development. Studies on mixtures of pesticides that include atrazine as well as studies of the potential for atrazine to cause adverse effects other than amphibian gonadal development are not being considered for the SAP meeting.
The Federal Register notice solicits the stakeholder community for nominations of prospective candidates for service as ad hoc members of the FIFRA SAP for this meeting. Any interested person or organization may nominate qualified individuals for consideration. Nominees should be scientists who have sufficient professional qualifications, including training and experience, to be capable of providing expert comments on the scientific issues for this meeting. Nominations should be submitted on or before July 16, 2007.
Instructions for submitting comments, nominating ad hoc scientists to the panel, and other SAP meeting details are available in the Federal Register notice.
For more information, please contact:
Joseph E. Bailey, (bailey.joseph@epa.gov) Office of Science Coordination and Policy (7201M), Environmental Protection Agency , 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.,Washington, DC 20460; Telephone number: (202) 564-204; Fax number: (202) 564-8382.