BPIA recommended that a new workgroup be created to help encourage the international acceptance of reduced-risk products through harmonization of MRLs and exemptions from tolerances.

On April 27th, the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture and Research held a hearing on “Federal Actions and Policies Affecting Costs of Production and Impacting the Rural Economy.” BPIA was asked to submit written testimony for the hearing.

BPIA believes that regulations should be based on the best available science, deliver appropriate health and environmental protection, and fully build upon the decades of experience that USDA has in reviewing both GE and non-GE microorganisms.

The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) is holding its next public meeting on April 25-27 in Washington, DC, and BPIA will be there. If you or a representative of your BPIA member company plan to attend the meeting in person, please let us know, so you can be a part of the BPIA activities.

BPIA is now accepting nominations for its first ever Volunteer of the Year Award. Do you know someone who exemplifies what it means to be a BPIA volunteer? Nominees should have demonstrated a personal commitment to advancing the mission of BPIA through their efforts on a BPIA committee or in some other volunteer work on behalf of BPIA.

One of the priorities of the BPIA Government Affairs Committee is to educate elected officials about the benefits of biopesticides and empower those officials to become advocates for the technology. That outreach is paying off.

Washington, DC, – March 2016 – the BPIA Government Affairs Committee (GAC) held another very successful BPIA Capitol Hill Day. A good mix of BPIA members including small, midsize, and large companies had a full day of meetings on Capitol Hill.

BioProtection Global (BPG) is the new name that has been adopted by the federation of the world’s leading Biocontrol and Biopesticide Associations, established in fall 2014.