To clarify the application of a certain provision of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act with respect to the uniformity of pesticide labeling, consistent with the text of such Act, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · August 21, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
This bill would require uniform pesticide labeling across the entire United States by preventing individual states and local governments from imposing their own labeling requirements that differ from federal standards approved by the Environmental Protection Agency. Currently, states can add stricter warnings or different labeling requirements on pesticides sold within their borders, but this legislation would prohibit those state-level requirements and prevent courts from enforcing them. The bill also restricts the EPA from issuing guidance or approving label changes that contradict its own health assessments or carcinogenicity classifications of pesticides. The legislation was introduced by Representatives Johnson of South Dakota and Costa in June 2023 and was referred to the House Agriculture Committee, but no specific funding amounts or implementation timelines are included in the bill text.
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