IR-4 Update from Headquarters

Van Starner - Assist. Director, Research Planning & Outreach

(w/J. Baron, Executive Director & D. Kunkel, Assoc. Director)

(2011 IR-4 Western Region SLR/CLC Meeting - 3/15-16, UC Davis, CA)

2010 Food Program Deliverables

2010 New Uses - 786, 21 Chemicals, 219 tolerances ** represents uses found on product labels (614)

• Acetamiprid – 8**• Acequinocyl - 17• Bifenazate – 22 (1 TLT)**• Chlorantraniliprole – 331**• Clethodim - 26• Clopyralid – 21**• Cyazofamid – 24**• Cyromazine – 14**• Difenaconazole – 12**• DiQuat – 1 (canola)*

• Flutolanil – 22• Fluazinam – 15**• Flumioxazin – 19**• Halosulfuron–methyl – 75**• Mancozeb – 22**• Novaluron – 68**• Pendimethalin – 3**• S-metolachlor – 74**• Spirodiclofen – 8**• Spiromesifen – 4**• Thifensulfuron methyl – 1**

** uses found on an approved marketing label

New Biopesticide uses for 2010 = 776

• Fluazinam – Apple/Carrot• Mefenoxam - 50

• Sulfentrazone – 67– First Vegetable, fruiting,

group 8-10

– 21 uses vs 9 before crop group change

2011 New Uses - 119

2010 Submissions – 19 Products

• 2,4-D– Teff

• 9,10-Anthraquinone– Corn

• Acibenzolar– Low growing berries

• Abamectin– Onion, bulb,

subgroup 3-07A– Chive (fresh and dried)– Bean, dry

• Bifenozate– Basil

• Cyprodinil– Lemon (processed)

• Rimsulfuron– Caneberry– Bushberry

• Spiromesifen– Pea, dry– Mint

• Tetraconazole– Berry, low growing,

subgroup– Fruit, small, vine

• Thiacloprid– Stone Fruit

• Zeta-cypermethrin– Artichoke, globe– Barley– Pistachio

• Dicamba– Teff

• Etoxazole– Tea

• Hexythiazox– GH Tomato

• Napropamide– Mint

• Novaluron– corn, sweet

• Metconazole– Vegetable,

root crops– Bushberry subgroup

• Paraquat– Tropical fruit

• Quizalofop– Sorghum– Oil Seeds

97 reports at HQ have been signed and are awaiting submission!

2010 International Submissions

• Etoxazole– Melon subgroup 9A

– Cucumber

– Fruit, stone, group 12

– Mint

– Tomato (greenhouse)

• Novaluron – Turnips greens, Potato

– Sweet potato

– Brassica vegetables

– Tomato

– Fruit, stone, group 12

– Blueberry

– Sugarcane

• Spinosad– Caneberry

• Fenpyroximate– Vegetable, fruiting, group 8

– Melon subgroup 9A

– Okra

– Mint

– Hop

NAFTA Crop Group Status

Bulb Vegetable group – approved Dec. 2007 Small Berries and Fruit – approved Dec. 2007 Edible Fungi – approved Dec. 2007 Oilseed group 20 – approved Dec. 8, 2010 (NEW for U.S.) Citrus Fruit group – approved Dec. 8, 2010 Fruiting Vegetables – approved Dec. 8, 2010 Pome Fruit group – approved Dec. 8, 2010 Stone Fruit group – ChemSAC preliminary approval Tree Nut group – ChemSAC preliminary approval Tropical Fruit groups – Submitted 11/10 to EPA and Codex

(Crop Group 22 – edible peel; Crop Group 23 – inedible peel)

Herb and Spice group – Submitted 7/09 Final Codex submission for fruit types is

completed