Gazette APVMA 2, 7 February 2006 - Page 26
NOTICERemoval of Chemicals from the Priority Candidate Review List
When the National Registration Scheme was introduced in March 1995, the APVMA assumed responsibility for over 5000 chemical product registrations granted under earlier arrangements in Australia’s States and Territories. The APVMA considered that some of the chemicals required reconsideration (review) to ensure that they met contemporary standards of safety and performance, taking into account any new information and scientific data generated since their registration.
On the 2 May 1995 the APVMA announced in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. NRA 5 the ‘Existing Chemical Review Program Nominations & Priority Candidate Review List’. The chemicals on the Priority Candidate Review List were a list of chemicals to be reviewed by the APVMA Chemical Review Program.
The APVMA has completed reviews of a number of chemicals on that list and is currently reviewing a number of others. Further information about the chemical review program can be obtained from the APVMA web site.
The APVMA has identified six chemicals on the Priority Candidate Review List that no longer have any registered products and therefore can be removed from the list, as a review will not be necessary. The six chemicals are:
· Benethamine penicillin
· Chlordane
· Dinocap
· Heptachlor
· Pentachlorophenol
· Thiometon
For three of these chemicals (benethamine penicillin, dinocap, thiometon) there is an active constituent or manufacturing concentrate approval. If applications for new products were received in the future, the registrant would be required to provide an appropriate data package to support product registration. The consideration of this data would address any potential concerns relating to the registration and use of these chemicals.
Pentachlorophenol has no active constituent approvals or registered product. If applications for new products were received in the future, the applicant would be required to provide a complete package to support both active ingredient approval as well as product registration. This chemical is also subject to the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (PIC). The export of PIC listed chemicals is subject to certain controls (see: http://www.daff.gov.au).
Two of the chemicals chlordane and heptachlor are listed in the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). This means that under the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act these chemicals are prohibited from being imported, exported, manufactured and used and thus no further active constituent approvals, product registrations or permits may be issued in respect of these chemicals.
For further information please contact (02) 6272 3213 or chemicalreview@apvma.gov.au.