Pesticides

We Know the Investment: Bringing an active ingredient to market requires an investment of tens of millions of dollars—in research and development, as well as regulatory costs to demonstrate that the product performs as intended without causing unreasonable adverse effects. We help pesticide companies get and keep their regulated products on the market, protect their data compensation rights, and prepare for emerging litigation and regulatory threats. Because our attorneys have been in the business of representing and counseling the pesticide industry for over forty years, we know what is important and what is not so important.

We Know the Laws: The primary focus of our work in the pesticide area is the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), but we also advise our clients in ancillary areas such as the Plant Protection Act (PPA), the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), and state programs that govern sales and use of pesticides. Members of our pesticide practice group possess decades of experience representing clients before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its Animal and Plant Health Inspection service (APHIS), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and other federal and state regulatory agencies, including the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR).

When Regulatory Troubles Turn to Torts: When our pesticide clients find themselves involved in toxic tort litigation, we turn to members of our litigation practice who have defended pesticide clients in district courts across the country, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and other courts and government agencies. Crowell lawyers have decades of experience with toxic tort, class action, and intellectual property litigations involving pesticides.