EPA sets MyPeST compliance reporting deadlines for bilingual pesticide labeling requirements

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published instructions and deadlines for pesticide registrants to report compliance with bilingual labeling requirements in the MyPeST application. The first compliance reporting deadline is July 31, 2026, for pesticide products with the highest toxicity.

Who’s impacted?

Compliance reporting applies to registrants of pesticide products subject to the bilingual labeling requirements established by the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2022 (PRIA 5) amendments to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).

PRIA 5 requires all end-use pesticide product labels to provide Spanish translations of the human health and safety sections by including the translated sections directly on the label or providing a link via scannable technology or other readily accessible electronic methods to the translated sections. EPA allows certain antimicrobial and non-agricultural pesticide products to comply by providing access to Spanish-language Safety Data Sheets instead of direct label translations.

Compliance timelines are based on the type of pesticide and its toxicity category.

What’s required?

Pesticide registrants must report compliance with the PRIA 5 bilingual labeling requirements using EPA’s MyPeST app. The agency recently published detailed reporting instructions in the MyPeST Application User Guide (accessible in the MyPeST app).

EPA also established the following deadlines for reporting compliance in MyPeST:

Pesticide product type	Bilingual labeling deadline	Compliance reporting deadline
Restricted use pesticides (RUPs)	December 29, 2025	July 31, 2026
Non-RUP agricultural products
Acute Toxicity Category I	December 29, 2025	July 31, 2026
Acute Toxicity Category II	December 29, 2027	January 28, 2028
Antimicrobials and non-agricultural products
Acute Toxicity Category I	December 29, 2026	January 28, 2027
Acute Toxicity Category II	December 29, 2028	January 28, 2029
All other pesticide products	December 29, 2030	January 28, 2031

Key to remember: EPA released detailed instructions and deadlines for pesticide registrants to report compliance with the bilingual labeling requirements in the MyPeST application.