Receipt of a Pesticide Petition Filed for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities (September 2024)

Distribution date: 14 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 12 December 2024
This document announces the Agency's receipt of an initial filing of a pesticide petition requesting the establishment or modification of regulations for residues of pesticide chemicals in or on various commodities.
Products Covered: Multiple commodities
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Proposed draft of the Public Notice “Designation of Restricted Substance and Prohibited Substance"

Distribution date: 14 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 13 January 2025
New designation of lead compounds and methylene chloride as restricted substances. Please refer to Attachment 2 and 3.
Products Covered: Chemical Substances
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Air Quality: Revision to the Regulatory Definition of Volatile Organic Compounds--Exclusion of (Z)-1-chloro-2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (HCFO-1224yd(Z))

Distribution date: 14 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 13 January 2025
Proposed rule - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to revise the EPA's regulatory definition of volatile organic compounds (VOC) under the Clean Air Act (CA
Products Covered: (Z)-1- chloro-2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene; Environmental protection (ICS code(s): 13.020); Production in the chemical industry (ICS code(s): 71.020); Products of the chemical industry (ICS code(s): 71.100)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Environmental Defense Fund, et al.; Response to Objections and Requests for a Public Hearing; Notification; Response to Objections and Denial of Public Hearing Requests

Distribution date: 14 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 23 February 2025
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) received objections and requests for a public hearing submitted by the Environmental Defense Fund, Learning Disabilities Association of America, Center for Food Safety, Center for Environmental Health, Cente
Products Covered: ICS Code(s): 67. Food contact substances
Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification
Indirect Food Additives: Adhesives and Components of Coatings; Paper and Paperboard Components; Polymers; Adjuvants, Production Aids, and Sanitizers; Final Rule; Response to Objection; Confirmation of Effective Date

Distribution date: 14 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 23 February 2025
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is responding to the objection that we received from the Environmental Defense Fund, Breast Cancer Prevention Partners, Environmental Protection Network, Environmental Working Group, and Healthy Babies Brigh
Products Covered: Polycarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives (HS code(s): 2917); Food technology (ICS code(s): 67)
Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification
DARS 2119, Dried shredded cassava (Abacha) - Specification

Distribution date: 13 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 12 January 2025
This Draft African standard specifies the requirements, sampling and test methods for dried shredded cassava commonly referred to as Abacha for human consumption.
Products Covered: Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers (HS code(s): 07); Food products in general (ICS code(s): 67.040)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
draft Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On Approval of the Procedure for Imports of Medicines into the Territory of Ukraine”

Distribution date: 13 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 12 January 2025
the draft Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine "On Approval of the Procedure for Imports of Medicines into the Territory of Ukraine" has been developed to regulate the procedure for imports of medicines (except for active pharmaceutical in
Products Covered: Medicines
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Application for reassessment an approval – APP204694 application to reassess chlorpyrifos. Staff Assessment Report: Application to reassess chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos containing substances.

Distribution date: 13 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 12 February 2025
The EPA is proposing to revoke the approvals for all chlorpyrifos containing substances.The approvals under the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 for the import and manufacture for release for chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos containi
Products Covered: Pesticides containing the active ingredient chlorpyrifos
Regulation Type: Regular notification
DEAS 148-2: 2024, Cement — Test methods — Part 2: Chemical analysis, Second Edition

Distribution date: 11 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 10 January 2025
This draft East African Standard specifies the methods for the chemical analysis of cement.The standard describes the reference methods and, in certain cases, an alternative method which can be considered to be equivalent. In the case of dispute, o
Products Covered: Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings (HS code(s): 321410); Construction materials (ICS code(s): 91.100)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
DEAS 148-2: 2024, Cement — Test methods — Part 2: Chemical analysis, Second Edition

Distribution date: 11 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 10 January 2025
This draft East African Standard specifies the methods for the chemical analysis of cement.The standard describes the reference methods and, in certain cases, an alternative method which can be considered to be equivalent. In the case of dispute, o
Products Covered: Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings (HS code(s): 321410); Construction materials (ICS code(s): 91.100)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
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