More Regulation Just Might Help Build up the Biostimulant Industry
October 1, 2021 Amy Plato Roberts will never forget her initial visit a few years ago with a bureaucrat at USDA. She was beginning to speak when the official interrupted her with a question: “What – you want to be regulated?”
The answer was yes. Roberts, the Chair of the Biological Products Industry Alliance’s (BPIA) Board of Directors, chuckled at the memory. But she’s dead serious when it comes to appropriate regulation of the biostimulant industry, which she, along with many others in the industry, believes could pave the way for an even higher rate of growth than the currently predicted 12%.
Regulating the industry would mean testing, helping weed out bad actors. But more important, Roberts, Director of Regulatory Affairs – Americas, Lallemand Plant Care, says companies would be freer to talk about their products, and they wouldn’t be subject to the myriad labels mandated by the various states in the U.S.
In addition, farmers would get more access to a wider range of products, and the bureaucrats working in the various statehouses charged with having to regulate biostimulants would get some guidance.
“It’s a win for us, but it’s also a win for farmers, and it’s a win for regulators,” Roberts says.
To find out more on the subject, click here to continue reading the full article featured in Meister Media Worldwide’s Biological Crop Protection & Plant Health Annual Report.
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