WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—March 24, 2015. The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to regulate novel nanomaterial pesticides as a result of a lawsuit filed by Center for Food Safety in December. In 2008, a coalition of nonprofits led by CFS filed a 116-page legal petition, requesting, among other things, that the EPA recognize the growing class of nano-silver consumer products and their risks and regulate them as new pesticides. After the EPA had failed to respond to the petition for six years, in December 2014 some of the petitioner groups sued the agency to force it to respond. That lawsuit succeeded on Friday, with the EPA issuing a 23-page response.
