Federal law allows the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to waive conventional registration of a pesticide product and allow States to petition EPA for a food-use of an unregistered product to control pest emergencies in the target crop. This presentation will provide information about Wisconsin’s request to obtain special approval for use of fungicides that are needed to control Asian Soybean Rust.

The presentation will give an overview of the chemical products being requested under Section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, the timeline for label approval by EPA and how applicators will obtain the emergency-use labels when they are made available in Wisconsin.