The IR-4 Project’s Role in Registration of Public Health Pesticides Jerry Baron Executive Director February 8, 2010
Why am I here today? 1.I am a very smart person
Why am I here today? 1.I am a very smart person FALSE
Why am I here today? 1.I am a very smart person 2.I am a Public Health Pesticide expert
Why am I here today? 1.I am a very smart person 2.I am a Public Health Pesticide expert FALSE I am a Weed Scientist
Why am I here today?
Then Why ? I am Executive Director of a very efficient and effective publically funded organization that facilities registration of minor uses of pesticides
Why am I here today?
IR-4 Project Mission To Facilitate Registration of Pest Management Solutions for Specialty Crops and Minor Uses
Minor Use Pesticide Problem
Insufficient economic incentives/small markets Few new products developed, registered, and marketed High costs to innovate Too many vectors and vector-borne diseases. Public Health Pesticides
FQPA Title II-Subpart C FQPA authorized up to $12 million per year to be used by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a public health pesticide data collection program- similar to IR-4 Resources never have been appropriated
Why IR-4? IR-4 has great working relationships with industry and EPA and understands what it takes to get chemical and biological pesticide products registered
Outline Background on Minor Use Problem The IR-4 Project Overview Global Vision Industry Partners
Cooperative Agreement Objectives Register products for DoD uses outside US Expand registrations for PHP Identify new technology leads Facilitate registrations for novel pesticides “Let’s fill the toolbox”
Bigger and Better toolbox
Identify candidate products & developers Assist development & registration Improve / harmonize registration process Protect what we already have Duties
Current State Uncertain market Big, uncertain regulatory cost Intellectual property rights Malaria focus Chemophobia
Future
Actions Volatile Repellents – DWFP & SBIR grantees Etofenprox – all crops label Biopesticide registration of botanicals RNAi Technology Pyriproxifen EUP Lethal Ovitrap & Novaluron - Data
Thank You! Jerry Baron: (732) ext 4605