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ImpacT of atrazine Review Outcomes
Information for Registrants, Resellers and Users
The APVMA has finalised the atrazine review and has affirmed all seven atrazine active constituent approvals. The APVMA has also required that registrants amend label instructions for newly-manufactured stocks of products containing atrazine, to reflect the outcomes of the atrazine review. All labels, or parts of labels, that specify the new instructions, will carry a label approval number ending in ‘04/08’.
These label amendments are primarily intended to further reduce the risk of atrazine entering waterways, as well as providing more information in relation to withholding periods and resistance reporting.
The APVMA is progressively cancelling all labels, or parts of labels that do not specify the new label instructions that the APVMA has determined are required. To date five product labels have been amended, and the remainder are required to be amended within the next 30 days.
Registrants are advised that if satisfactory amended labels have not been approved for products containing atrazine within the next 30 days, the APVMA may cancel all labels for the product and as a consequence may cancel the product registration.
Resellers and users should check product labels carefully to ensure that they are familiar with the new instructions, which are applicable to new stock of all products that contain atrazine, either alone or in combination with other active constituents.
Note that not all new label instructions are applicable to every product. It is important to check specific labels and comply with the instructions for use on the product label.
Some, but not all, labels for newly-manufactured stock will include the restraint statement ‘TT canola: Do NOT use or apply atrazine post-emergence on raised beds or where furrows have been created in soil for the purposes of holding or channelling water.’
Newly-manufactured stocks of products that have an approved claim for use on TT canola, and that do not specify this restraint statement, can continue to be used post-emergence on TT canola grown on raised beds, pending the provision of additional water monitoring data. Newly-manufactured stocks of products that include this restraint statement cannot be used post-emergence on raised beds, although pre-emergence use can continue in accordance with label instructions.
During the phase out interval for cancelled product labels, all resellers and users are authorised to possess, supply and use product in accordance with the cancelled label instructions. The phase out interval for all cancelled atrazine labels is 2 years.