Any registrant or manufacturer who would like to continue registering a product with the MDA that contains intentionally added PFAS after the statutory deadlines for prohibition (January 1, 2026 for pesticidal products meeting the definition of the following product categories: carpets or rugs, cleaning products, cookware, cosmetics, dental floss, fabric treatments, juvenile products, menstruation products, textile furnishings, ski wax, and upholstered furniture and January 1, 2032 for all other pesticide, fertilizer, specialty fertilizer, soil and plant amendment, and agricultural liming products).
Any registrant or manufacturer who would like to continue registering a product with the MDA that contains intentionally added PFAS after the statutory deadlines for prohibition (January 1, 2026 for pesticidal products meeting the definition of the following product categories: carpets or rugs, cleaning products, cookware, cosmetics, dental floss, fabric treatments, juvenile products, menstruation products, textile furnishings, ski wax, and upholstered furniture and January 1, 2032 for all other pesticide, fertilizer, specialty fertilizer, soil and plant amendment, and agricultural liming products).
Directions for how to submit a CUU application, in addition to what applications should include, can be found on the PFAS: Currently Unavoidable Use page.
Directions for how to submit a CUU application, in addition to what applications should include, can be found on the PFAS: Currently Unavoidable Use page.
To avoid interruption of product registration, applications should be submitted well in advance of the prohibition deadline.
To avoid interruption of product registration, applications should be submitted well in advance of the prohibition deadline.
Guidance and directions for currently unavoidable use applications are being developed and will be posted on the MDA's website when finished.
Guidance and directions for currently unavoidable use applications are being developed and will be posted on the MDA's website when finished.
Yes. Registrants of distributor products must submit a currently unavoidable use exemption application for distributor products. The application can refer (i.e., “right to refer”) to decisions made about the Section 3 product as support for an exemption.
Yes. Registrants of distributor products must submit a currently unavoidable use exemption application for distributor products. The application can refer (i.e., “right to refer”) to decisions made about the Section 3 product as support for an exemption.
