{
  "last_verified": "2026-06-28",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "epa-paraquat",
      "title": "EPA: Paraquat Dichloride",
      "publisher": "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency",
      "source_type": "official_regulatory",
      "source_url": "https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/paraquat-dichloride",
      "notes": "EPA ingredient page describing U.S. restricted-use status, mitigation, worker and bystander exposure issues, and ongoing review."
    },
    {
      "id": "epa-diquat",
      "title": "EPA: Diquat Dibromide Aquatic Herbicide Fact Sheet",
      "publisher": "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency",
      "source_type": "official_regulatory",
      "source_url": "https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2025-07/diquat-fact-sheet_0.pdf",
      "notes": "EPA fact sheet describing the 2019 interim registration review decision and risk mitigation for diquat."
    },
    {
      "id": "eu-diquat",
      "title": "EU Pesticides Database: Diquat",
      "publisher": "European Commission",
      "source_type": "official_regulatory_database",
      "source_url": "https://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/pesticides/eu-pesticides-database/start/screen/active-substances/details/659",
      "notes": "European Commission database entry listing diquat as not approved under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009."
    },
    {
      "id": "epa-chlorpyrifos",
      "title": "EPA: Chlorpyrifos",
      "publisher": "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency",
      "source_type": "official_regulatory",
      "source_url": "https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/chlorpyrifos",
      "notes": "EPA ingredient page describing current U.S. regulatory status, litigation history, food tolerances, and registration review."
    },
    {
      "id": "eu-chlorpyrifos",
      "title": "European Commission: Chlorpyrifos and Chlorpyrifos-methyl",
      "publisher": "European Commission",
      "source_type": "official_regulatory",
      "source_url": "https://food.ec.europa.eu/plants/pesticides/approval-active-substances-safeners-and-synergists/renewal-approval/chlorpyrifos-chlorpyrifos-methyl_en",
      "notes": "European Commission explanation of non-renewal following EFSA and Member State human-health concerns."
    },
    {
      "id": "epa-atrazine",
      "title": "EPA: Atrazine",
      "publisher": "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency",
      "source_type": "official_regulatory",
      "source_url": "https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/atrazine",
      "notes": "EPA ingredient page describing atrazine uses, registration review, ecological mitigation, and biological opinion process."
    },
    {
      "id": "eea-pesticides-water",
      "title": "European Environment Agency: Pesticides in rivers, lakes and groundwater in Europe",
      "publisher": "European Environment Agency",
      "source_type": "official_monitoring",
      "source_url": "https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/european-zero-pollution-dashboards/indicators/pesticides-in-rivers-lakes-and-groundwater-in-europe",
      "notes": "EEA indicator noting atrazine is not approved for use in plant protection products during the monitoring period."
    },
    {
      "id": "epa-neonics",
      "title": "EPA: Actions to Protect Pollinators",
      "publisher": "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency",
      "source_type": "official_regulatory",
      "source_url": "https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/epa-actions-protect-pollinators",
      "notes": "EPA page describing proposed interim decisions for neonicotinoids and pollinator-protection actions."
    },
    {
      "id": "eu-neonics",
      "title": "European Commission: Neonicotinoid restrictions",
      "publisher": "European Commission",
      "source_type": "official_regulatory",
      "source_url": "https://food.ec.europa.eu/plants/pesticides/approval-active-substances-safeners-and-synergists/approval-active-substances/neonicotinoids_en",
      "notes": "European Commission page describing EU restrictions on clothianidin, imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam."
    },
    {
      "id": "epa-chlorothalonil",
      "title": "EPA: Interim Decisions on Chlorothalonil, Thiophanate-methyl, and Carbendazim",
      "publisher": "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency",
      "source_type": "official_regulatory",
      "source_url": "https://www.epa.gov/pesticides/epa-announces-interim-decisions-chlorothalonil-thiophanate-methyl-and-carbendazim",
      "notes": "EPA announcement describing chlorothalonil risks of concern and carbendazim status."
    },
    {
      "id": "eu-mancozeb",
      "title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2087 on Mancozeb",
      "publisher": "European Union",
      "source_type": "official_regulatory",
      "source_url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2020/2087/oj/eng",
      "notes": "EU non-renewal regulation for the active substance mancozeb."
    },
    {
      "id": "efsa-mancozeb",
      "title": "EFSA: Peer review of Mancozeb pesticide risk assessment",
      "publisher": "European Food Safety Authority",
      "source_type": "official_scientific_review",
      "source_url": "https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2020.5755",
      "notes": "EFSA peer review used in EU decision-making on mancozeb."
    },
    {
      "id": "epa-glyphosate",
      "title": "EPA: Glyphosate",
      "publisher": "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency",
      "source_type": "official_regulatory",
      "source_url": "https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/glyphosate",
      "notes": "EPA ingredient page describing U.S. registration review, Ninth Circuit remand, and EPA cancer-evaluation position."
    },
    {
      "id": "iarc-glyphosate",
      "title": "IARC Monographs Volume 112: Glyphosate classification",
      "publisher": "International Agency for Research on Cancer",
      "source_type": "official_scientific_review",
      "source_url": "https://www.iarc.who.int/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate/",
      "notes": "IARC classification provides a differing hazard assessment from EPA's registration-risk framing."
    },
    {
      "id": "epa-pfas-pesticides",
      "title": "EPA: PFAS in Pesticide and Other Packaging",
      "publisher": "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency",
      "source_type": "official_regulatory",
      "source_url": "https://www.epa.gov/pesticides/pfas-packaging",
      "notes": "EPA page on PFAS concerns involving pesticide products, containers, and ingredients."
    }
  ]
}