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daminozide (Alar, B-Nine) EPA Special Review Decision 10/92 |
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Daminozide -- Non-food use determination and Special Review Decision EPA has published the final daminozide regulatory decision allowing the continued use on certain non-food plants (ornamental and bedding crops), and the notice includes the EPA's final assessment of dietary risks, which stated: "In light of the revised lifetime dietary risk estimate of 2.6 x 10-5, and the benefits of the food uses as estimated in 1989, EPA believes that it would have pursued the same course of action as that taken in 1989. Therefore, the revised dietary risk assessment does not change the agency's regulatory or scientific position on the food uses of daminozide." The agency estimated the life-time cancer risk to workers from the continued non-food uses of daminozide to be 10 -7 (less than 1 cancer in a million workers) from exposure to UDMH (unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine), a daminozide contaminant. The agency estimated that the potential economic impacts from cancellation of daminozide "would be no less than $15 million but could be considerably higher." - Federal Register, 10/8/92
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