Commitment to Product Safety
Companies like ours rely on predictable and science-based regulation as we bring innovations to market. Securing regulatory approval for pesticides is an extensive process, requiring an average of 13 years between discovery and commercialization, significant investment, and the generation of detailed safety and efficacy data.
The Corteva Predictive Safety Center enables the purposeful design of sustainable crop protection products by providing safety and sustainability insights from the earliest stages of product design and development. The center is closely integrated with our discovery project teams, accelerating the characterization and selection of new molecules that benefit farmers and that have the most favorable environmental profiles.
Meeting or Exceeding Stringent Regulatory Standards
In all the countries we serve, Corteva is dedicated to meeting or exceeding the stringent safety standards and rigorous regulatory processes applicable to our products. Our innovations undergo rigorous approval processes, and ongoing re-approval, by regulators all over the world, including Europe, Canada, Australia and others.
Because pesticides interact with our environment and support our global food chain, they are highly regulated, with individual countries maintaining their own rigorous approval standards.
- In the U.S., companies must generate rigorous scientific data to understand the identity, composition, potential adverse effects and environmental fate of each pesticide. This typically requires us to carry out more than 150 safety studies, with methodologies verified and approved by the EPA.
- In the European Union, the pesticide approval process requires peer review by experts from all member states and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
Development and commercialization of new pesticide products is an extensive process, requiring an average of 13 years between discovery and marketing, significant investment, and the generation of detailed safety data.
And these processes are only the beginning. After the initial authorization, pesticides must be monitored, and additional safety and periodic review data is often provided to regulators. The U.S. EPA, for example, thoroughly reviews the safety of all approved pesticides – at least once every 15 years, using up-to-date science to evaluate risks to humans, animals and the environment. Additional international regulations ensure that these products continue to be safe for environmental and human health when used as directed.