What is the purpose of the bulk pesticide repackaging policy?
EPA’s Office of Enforcement issued the “Enforcement Policy Applicable to Bulk Shipments of Pesticides” (hereinafter referred to as the bulk pesticide repackaging policy) on July 11, 1977, and amended the policy on March 4, 1991, in order to address the practice of transport and transfer of large quantities of pesticides. The transport and transfer of a pesticide in bulk quantities requires the changing of the container of the pesticide. This change of containers is repackaging and therefore production as defined by 40 CFR 167.3 and section 7 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). The resultant repackaged pesticide is subject to the registration requirements of section 3 of FIFRA. EPA developed the bulk pesticide repackaging policy in order to accommodate a practice that the Agency recognizes as having many benefits, without having each repackaging establishment register the repackaged bulk pesticide as long as the repackaging establishment repackages only a
