Nanosilver pesticide products: What does the future hold?

Environmental Quality Management

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 73-82

  Bergeson, Lynn L ^a  

^a BERGESON AND CAMPBELL P C   (United States)

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ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FUTURE PROSPECT; LITERATURE REVIEW; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION CONTROL;

EID: 77954367659     PISSN: 10881913     EISSN: 15206483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tqem.20263     Document Type: Article

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2. Ibid., at 66.
3. 41 Fed. Reg. 51065.
4. Environmental Protection Agency. (2007, September 21). Pesticide registration; clarification for ion-generating equipment, 72 Fed. Reg. 54039-54041.
5. Ibid., at 54040. Equipment affected by the 2007 clarification includes, but is not limited to, "washing machines containing electrodes that emit silver, copper, or zinc ions and ion generators used in swimming pools to kill algae and as an adjunct to the chlorination process." US EPA noted that "[o]ther types of technology not listed in this notice could also be affected." This might even include equipment used for disinfection in manufacturing. The Agency requested "information on any other type of equipment that generates ions from electrodes for pesticidal purposes that could be covered under this notice."
6. Ibid., at 54040.
7. International Center for Technology Assessment. (2008, May 1). Citizen petition for rulemaking to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Petition for rulemaking requesting EPA regulate nano-silver products as pesticides. Available online at http://www.icta.org/nanoaction/doc/CTA_nano-silver%20petition__final_5_1_08.pdf.
8. The inventory is available at http://www.nanotechproject.org/inventories/consumer/.
9. See note 7, at 13.
10. Ibid., at 15.
11. Ibid., at 16.
12. Ibid., at 25-26. EPA Region 9's press release on the IOGEAR settlement is available online at http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/2dd7f669225439b78525735900400c31/16a190492f2f25d585257403005c2851!OpenDocument.
13. See note 7, at 28-30.
14. Environmental Protection Agency. (2008, November 19). Petition for rulemaking requesting EPA regulate nanoscale silver products as pesticides; notice of availability, 73 Fed. Reg. 69644-69646.
15. OPP FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel Background Paper: Evaluation of Hazard and Exposure Associated with Nanosilver and Other Nanometals (November 3-6, 2009).
16. Letter from Rosalind Volpe, D.PH., Executive Director, Silver Nanotechnology Working Group, to Steven Bradbury, Ph.D., Acting Director, Office of Pesticide Programs (2010, February 2), at 2. Available online at http://nanotech.lawbc.com/uploads/file/Nanosilver-SNWG%20Letter%20to%20SAP%20%20(00056523).PDF.
17. Comments of the Silver Nanotechnology Working Group for review by the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel (October 30, 2009), at 7. Available online at http://www.silverinstitute.org/images/stories/silver/PDF/epa_hq_opp2009.pdf.
18. Ibid.
19. See Wijnhoven, S. W. P., Peijnenburg, W. J. G. M., Herberts, C. A., Hagens, W. I., Oomen, A. G., Heugens, E. H. W., Roszek, B., Bisschops, J., Gosens, I., Van De Meent, D., Dekkers, S., De Jong, W. H, van Zijverden, M., Sips, A. J. A. M., & Geertsma, R. E. (2009, June). Nano-silver-A review of available data and knowledge gaps in human and environmental risk assessment. Nanotoxicology, 3(2), 109-138.
20. See note 15, at 18.
21. Ibid., at 13.
22. The SAP report is available online at http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/sap/meetings/2009/november/110309ameetingminutes.pdf.