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Environmental Risk Assessment Will Shape the Future of Agricultural Biological Products
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Fusion42 · 3 September 2026 · Fusion42 review
The US EPA is intensifying environmental risk assessment requirements for microbial agricultural biological products, focusing on their viability, infectivity, and ecological impact beyond efficacy. This shift requires developers to integrate environmental safety into earlier product development stages with extensive testing on non-target species under conservative exposure scenarios.
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US biological crop protection makers can no longer treat environmental testing as a late hurdle. You need to embed deeper safety data gathering starting now or face delays and denials come 2026.
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