Pesticide manufacturers would receive protection from some state warning claims when their labels meet federal approval or risk-assessment standards, subject to an exception for hidden risk information.
A pesticide label would count as adequate for certain state warning claims if federal approval or risk-assessment requirements are met. An exception covers manufacturers that knowingly hide important health-risk information to gain or keep approval.
A pesticide label would be treated as adequate for certain state failure-to-warn and labeling claims. This applies only to pesticides registered with Ohio’s agriculture director under this chapter or with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The label must be approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or match the latest human-health risk assessment under federal law. The protection would not apply if the EPA determined that the manufacturer knowingly withheld, hid, misrepresented, or destroyed important human-health risk information to obtain or keep label approval. The excerpt indicates the section would apply beginning at a point not shown in the supplied text.
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