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Apr 07, 2016
The American Soybean Association (ASA) led efforts, along with a coalition of over 30 other commodity and food organizations, to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the process by which they have decided to cancel a commonly used insecticide.
Flubendiamide is commercially known as Belt, and is an effective and safe insecticide used by many soybean growers across the south to battle harmful pests, such as corn earworm and soybean looper, with minimal impact to beneficial insects.
In addition to potentially losing an effective tool for growers, another critical concern to ASA is that if EPA’s proposed cancellation of flubendiamide registrations is approved, the growers will be denied the protections of a lawful cancellation procedure, including required consultation with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), opportunity for full grower input, scientific peer review, and the opportunity for a full evidentiary administrative hearing challenging the merits of EPA’s scientific and regulatory determinations.
