Bayer's Crop Science division is rejecting EPA's request that it voluntarily cancel uses of flubendiamide (trade name: Belt), an insecticide used on more than 200 crops nationwide.

 

Instead, the company said it will ask to have the product's registration reviewed by an EPA administrative law judge, which would probably result in a ruling this year.

 

Bayer will send EPA a letter today with its decision, the company told reporters yesterday.

 

EPA said it would move forward with cancellation. In a statement, the agency said that in 2008, it issued a “time-limited registration to Bayer CropScience LP, and Nichino America Inc., for flubendiamide to better understand the potential impact of the product's metabolite to degrade in the environment and its toxicity. The agency also wanted to be able to quickly take this product off the market if there were problems.”

 

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