Come join Compliance Services International (CSI) staff technical and regulatory consultants at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring National Meeting / AGRO Division, March 26-30, 2023 in Indianapolis, IN. #ACSSpring2023 #ACSAgro
Under the theme of Crossroads of Chemistry, our staff of Bernalyn McGaughey, Leah Duzy, and Annie Krueger will be presenting and available throughout the meeting to meet with you to answer any questions you have regarding our regulatory and technical consultancy services pertaining to Federal and State pesticide registration support, Endangered Species Act (ESA) compliance and strategy, including sustainable agriculture and protecting public health and the environment through chemistry. To contact our staff prior to the meeting, please click the contact us button below to send an email, otherwise contact them directly while attending the meeting.
Presenting Staff
Bernalyn McGaughey
President / CEO
Washington State
PRESENTING: 3807220 – Endangered species and the row crop revolution: Finding a balance between agricultural efficiency, environmental sustainability, and regulatory stability
DIVISION: [AGRO] Division of Agrochemicals
SESSION FORMAT: Oral – In-person
ROOM & LOCATION: Pennsylvania Station A (Crown Plaza Indianapolis Downtown Union Square)
SESSION DATE: March 28, 2023
SESSION TIME: 2:55pm – 3:20 pm Eastern
As the theme of the symposium notes, introduction of genetically modified row crops to the Midwestern U.S. and Southern Canada some 25 years ago signaled the beginning of a new agronomic era. With the introduction of insect- and herbicide-resistant crops, there was a dynamic shift in the profile of pesticide use. Coupled with this shift have been three eras of regulatory overhaul of pesticide regulation: 1) health-assessment-driven changes in labeling resulting from 1988 amendments to FIFRA (“reregistration”) and the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act, 2) environmental-assessment-driven changes in labeling resulting from registration review, now a 15-year cyclical process emerged reregistration, and 3) now a third era driven by endangered species review and consultation. This presentation will examine historical “regulatory eras,” defining the “New Era” as endangered species review in the context of Midwestern agriculture, environmental quality, human well-being, and the agrochemical enterprise. Within the New Era, there have also been cycles. For agriculture, each era, and its internal cycles, have meant regulatory retooling, registration uncertainties, and often what seemed as sudden and major product cancellations, leaving growers scrambling to find alternate products to protect their crops until a slew of cancellations was overcome by the introduction of new active ingredients. Considering the attention now given to environmental protection, we forget the first formative years when society began to recognize a greater need to protect imperilled species, and the time – and cost – it has taken to impose a new paradigm. For example, concern about the effect of DDT on the enviornment resulted in a series of cancellations of uses of DDT beginning in 1958, with few domestic crop uses remaining when DDT was cancelled completely in 1972. Despite their having been the “campaign species” for lobbying for DDT cancellation, the perigrine falcon was not listed as an imperilled species until 1970 (under the Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969) and the bald eagle was not listed until 1978, six years after the modern Endangred Species Act was passed in 1972. Both have been delisted, the perigrine in 1999 and the bald eagle in 2007. This presentation will explore how these older lessons, and the scene playing out in the “New Era,” result in what we will call an agricultural “Lurch Effect:” the abrupt, unsteady, uncontrolled impact of series of regulatory actions.
PRESENTING: 3827883 – Equipping pesticide applicators with knowledge about ESA: Education and outreach concept
DIVISION: [AGRO] Division of Agrochemicals
PRESENTATION FORMAT: Oral – In-person
ROOM & LOCATION: Pennsylvania Station A (Crown Plaza Indianapolis Downtown Union Square)
PRESENTATION DATE: March 29, 2023
PRESENTATION TIME: 3:30pm – 3:55 pm Eastern
Complying with the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for pesticide registrations presents unique challenges due to complexity of assessment, national scope, and lack of a standardized mitigation process. The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Endangered Species Task Force (FESTF) has been involved in pesticide and endangered species data aggregation and delivery for over 25 years. Over these years, FESTF’s core mission of data collection, aggregation and delivery has also allowed us to define additional efforts responsive to information needs. It has become apparent that education for pesticide applicators and end-users on the intersection between FIFRA and the ESA is not consistent or readily available. FESTF proposes to develop an education and outreach program that is directly relevant to recovery of ESA-listed species in a way that creates a positive narrative related to pesticides and ESA-listed species. The program will address specific recovery actions related to education and outreach efforts and link educational materials directly to reducing potential threats of pesticides. To be effective, the program should balance the needs of the target audience (e.g., pesticide applicators, landowners, and the public) with the recovery needs of the species by highlighting existing conservation practices and techniques that are already in place, thereby increasing the effectiveness of already known practices. Materials will be developed with species and other subject matter experts and in collaboration with a variety of stakeholders, including land-grant universities and federal, state, and local conservation and pesticide-user organizations and distributed through various platforms. The objective of this presentation is to introduce the conceptual program and highlight the data that could be used to inform the education and outreach program.
Leah Duzy
Principal Consultant
Alabama
Annie Krueger
Senior Consultant
New Mexico
PRESENTING: 3828383 – Balancing species protection and soybean production: Systems approach to endangered species act pesticide mitigations
DIVISION: Division of Agrochemicals
SESSION FORMAT: [AGRO] Oral – In-person
ROOM & LOCATION: Haymarket Station B (Crown Plaza Indianapolis Downtown Union Square)
SESSION DATE: March 27, 2023
SESSION TIME: 5:05 pm – 5:30 pm Eastern
Agricultural operations are complex systems and producers must balance inputs, outputs, and various stressors in their decision-making processes. Recently, pesticide registration decisions have added new use restrictions and required conservation practices for protection of species listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA; “listed species”). Producers will now need to balance increasing scales of complexity for pesticide input decisions while challenged with emerging pests and production stressors. On July 28th, 2022, representatives from the production and conservation communities in Nebraska and Iowa met to share each organization’s perspective on how to balance these challenges and identified the following goals that could be accomplished with input from a wider audience:
1) identify co-benefits and potential consequences of conservation practices for species protection and production agriculture; 2) develop a framework and next steps for an adaptive management plan to address species conservation with changing agricultural productivity stressors; 3) develop a level of understanding and trust among the diverse stakeholders to better appreciate the intent and impact. In February, we brought together 150 people across the agriculture and conservation communities to achieve these goals. CSI, on behalf of the FIFRA Endangered Species Task Force, will present an overview of the workshop and current status of the project.
Compliance Services International (CSI) is an award-winning consultancy providing innovative solutions to meet regulatory and environmental challenges. Regulatory requirements, environmental challenges, and global markets are ever-changing. Our diverse staff of regulatory professionals and scientists in North America and Europe, along with associates around the world, continually adapt to develop strategic approaches to meet our clients’ needs.
CSI’s strength is in staying current on industry trends, and anticipating and applying new regulatory and scientific strategies. Our clients include multinational firms and small and medium-sized enterprises striving to introduce new and keep existing products in the global marketplace. While we keep pace with our ever-evolving regulatory and scientific environment, we strive to deliver outstanding service for each client and project.
CSI has an established reputation in providing registration support to the global marketplace and have successfully assisted firms with registrations in Canada, Latin America, Asia (China/Taiwan), Australasia, and other geographical markets.
Experienced Support For:
- Global Regulatory Strategy
- Registration Dossier Preparation & Submission
- Ecotoxicology & Risk Assessment
- Environmental Fate & Exposure Modeling
- Study Design, Placement & Monitoring
- Spatial Analysis & Data Systems
