2022_07_19 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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have multiple stomachs. That’s the biggest issue and what causes gossypol poisoning is that the gossypol is taken up – it doesn’t have time to be broken down, basically, by the feral pigs, so, you know, HDOA has determined that there are no false or misleading statements on “HogStop’s” label. So, you know, you folks are probably interested in what kind of rules and regulations we have for stop sales – so there’s a couple of citations here – HRS 149A – so 149A basically covers all of our pesticides’ statutes – it allows us – stop sales for violations of Chapter 149 – any of our pesticide laws. Because this product is a minimum risk pesticide and it’s because it’s abiding by all the requirements set within the exemption – the 25B difference exemption – the pesticide laws – all of our distribution laws – pesticide related – they have to be pesticide related violations – because they’re following the laws that we have written, you know, we can’t do a stop sale on our end. We also have written within our rules the ability to evaluate those pesticides – all pesticides – and suspend licenses. So evaluations can lead no changes, restricted use classifications, you know, you have to be a certified applicator to use a product, you have to have an annual use permit – we can cancel the product or suspend the license so the problem here is it’s kinda – the product needs to be registered and licensed by US EPA and HDOA and the product isn’t required to be registered and licensed because it falls under that minimum risk classification and there’s the citation for the exemptions of the minimum risk products – so, you know, our hands are unfortunately tied based on the stop sales and, revoking licenses for “HogStop” so that’s the quick and dirty of the regulatory scheme for the pesticides branch. I’ve provided my contact information right up there (Greg.Y.Takeshima@hawaii.gov – phone: 808-973-9404) I do have an education specialist on Oahu, as well as in Hilo, the supervisor for the Education Section is Adam Yamamoto. (Adam.T.Yamamoto@hawaii.gov – phone 808-973-9409) I have new staff coming in – he’s actually not that new – some of you folks probably know him – Grant Kau – he’s gonna be moving into the Pesticides Branch, Education Section. BL: Thank you, Greg… AA: Thanks, Greg… LT: Mahalo… AA: While since your screen stay up we get Charles Kaleo with his hand up so just state your name and then you can ask him a question. CK: Aloha, my name is Charles Kaleo – my question is – you said that it’s OK for the cattle and the pigs to eat it, right? GT: Yeah. CK: OK. What about the sheep, the goats and the deer, which we consume as food? GT: Yeah, OK, so, according to that specific label it is recommended, so, this gets into another weird kind of quasi-enforceable, unenforceable thing. The label – when “HogStop” does have that recommendation of putting it in a container with a 17-pound lid, I believe is the specifics to it, the only problem with that is 25 being a minimum risk products are exempted from our rules so we cannot enforce if somebody, let’s say somebody just throws it out on the ground – with our 19