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							   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
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           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


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           I am a Weed Scientist
Why am I here today?
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
        Public Health Pesticides
• Insufficient economic incentives/small
  markets
• Few new products developed,
  registered, and marketed
• High costs to innovate
• Too many vectors and vector-borne
  diseases.
    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
Industry Partners
       Outline
  Background on Minor Use
   Problem
  The IR-4 Project Overview
  Global Vision
         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
                  Duties
• Identify candidate products &
  developers
• Assist development & registration
• Improve / harmonize registration
  process
• Protect what we already have
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:
jbaron@aesop.rutgers.edu
(732) 932-9575 ext 4605