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Government reviews and regulatory decisions pertaining to 2,4-D

Health Canada Pest Management Regulatory Agency, Re-evaluation of the Agriculture, Forestry, Aquatic and Industrial Site Uses of 2,4-D Proposed Acceptability for Continuing Registration, June 19, 2007.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces Decision Not to Initiate a Special Review of 2,4-D. August 8, 2007. Full text of the EPA's decision may be found at:

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/August/Day-08/p15109.htm

Health Canada Pest Management Regulatory Agency; Re-evaluation of the Lawn and Turf Uses of 2,4-D, Comments and Responses to PACR 2005-01, August 16, 2006.

U.S. EPA; Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid (Phase 6 of 6-Phase Process); United States Environmental Protection Agency Docket ID OPP-2004-0167. Federal Register Notice 70-151, August 8, 2005.

U.S. EPA; 2,4-D Pesticide Tolerance, United States Environmental Protection Agency Docket ID OPP-2005-0038. Federal Register Notice 70-143, July 27, 2005.

Health Canada Pest Management Regulatory Agency; Re-evaluation of the Lawn and Turf Uses of 2,4‑D, Proposed Acceptability for Continuing Registration, February 21, 2005

Health Canada Minister’s Response to petition of Kazimiera J. Cottam to the Auditor General of Canada. February 1, 2005

U.S. EPA; 2,4-D: Response to Public Comments, United States Environmental Protection Agency Docket ID OPP-2004-0167-0090. December 16, 2004.

U.S. EPA; Review of recent 2,4-D cancer epidemiology studies, United States Environmental Protection Agency Docket ID OPP-2004-0167-0089. December 8, 2004.

U.S. EPA; Overview of the 2,4-D Risk Assessments, United States Environmental Protection Agency Docket ID OPP-2004-0167-0002. Federal Register Notice 69-120, June 23, 2004.

World Health Organization; Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality. Third Edition. Geneva. World Health Organization, pp. 340–342, 2003.

New Zealand Environmental Risk Management Authority; Substances to be transferred to the HSNO Act under section 160(1)(a): Phenoxy Herbicides, 2003.

Washington State Department of Ecology; Herbicide Risk Assessment for the Aquatic Plant Management, Appendix C, Volume 3: 2,4-D, Section 5, Human Health Effects, 2001.

European Commission; Health & Consumer Protection Directorate-General Review Report on 2,4-D, 2001.

New Zealand Pesticides Board; Report of the Pesticides Board Expert Panel on 2,4-D, September 11, 2000.

World Health Organization; Pesticide Residues in Food, Residue Evaluations for 2,4-D, Report of the Joint Meeting of the FAO Expert Group on Pesticide Residues, Rome, September 30, 1998.

World Health Organization; Pesticide Residues in Food, Toxicology and Environmental Evaluations for 2,4-D, Report of the Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food and the Environment and the WHO Core Assessment Group. Lyon, France, 22 September - 1 October 1997

U.S. EPA; Carcinogenicity Peer Review (4th) of 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D). United States Environmental Protection Agency; Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, January 29, 1997.

World Health Organization; Pesticide Residues in Food, Toxicological Evaluations for 2,4-D, Report of the Joint Meeting of the FAO Expert Group on Pesticide Residues, Rome, September 25, 1996.

U.S. EPA; Review of a Chronic Toxicity/Carcinogenicity Study in Rats/Mice and a Re-review of a Developmental Toxicity Study in Rats, May 13, 1996.

Health Canada, Pest Management Regulatory Agency, 2,4-D Update and Label Improvement Program, November 23,1994.

U.S. EPA; Review of the Epidemiological and Other Data on the Potential Carcinogenicity of 2,4‑D by the SAB/SAP Joint Committee, United States Environmental Protection Agency, March 22, 1994.

Ontario Ministry of the Environment; Exposure Studies in the Use of Pesticides in the Home and Garden and for Landscape Pest Control, The Canadian Centre for Toxicology, University of Guelph, 1991.

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