Washington — The Environmental Protection Agency recently published guidance intended to help pesticide manufacturers comply with bilingual labeling requirements, which advance “safety and access to critical use information for Spanish-speaking workers.”
The Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2022 requires pesticide manufacturers to translate into Spanish safety and health information on product labels. Compliance must be reported in the MyPeST app. In June, EPA offered instructions guiding registrants to:
- Check a box in MyPeST next to each product that includes bilingual labeling.
- Check a separate box in the app for products not required to include such labeling because they won’t be released for shipment.
Further, EPA reminds registrants of its reporting schedule for six product types.
Under the act, labels for restricted-use pesticide products and agricultural-use products with the highest toxicity had a translation deadline of Dec. 29 and must be reported in MyPeST by July 31. Labels for all other pesticide products must be translated by Dec. 29, 2030, and reported in the app by Jan. 28, 2031.
EPA asserts that the updates “improve transparency.”
