EPA Notice on Pesticide Residue Petitions for Various Commodities
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The EPA is opening public comment on petitions that ask the agency to create or change allowed pesticide residue limits for various food commodities. The notice identifies petitions received in 2024 and 2025 that are now under EPA review. Food producers, pesticide manufacturers, commodity groups, importers, and public health or consumer organizations may want to review the listed petitions and submit comments by July 22, 2026. The notice does not itself approve new limits; it starts the public comment step before EPA decides whether to change its residue rules.
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Key Changes
- Opens public comment on pesticide residue petitions for various commodities
- Identifies petitions received in 2024 and 2025 that EPA is reviewing
- Sets July 22, 2026 as the deadline for public comments
Obligations
What this law requires
Anyone submitting comments on the pesticide petitions must submit them by July 22, 2026.
Commenters must identify comments with docket ID EPA-HQ-OPP-2026-0332 and the pesticide petition number of interest from Unit II when submitting comments online at regulations.gov.
Commenters must not submit electronically any Confidential Business Information or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.