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The U.S. EPA recently announced that some pesticides have been granted emergency exemptions to some states and federal agencies. The exemptions were granted during the period October 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014 to control unforeseen pest outbreaks.The emergency exemptions may take the following form: Crisis, public health, quarantine,or specific.The details are as follow:

States	Products	Use	Effective/ Expiry date
Alabama	potassium salt of hop betaacids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Feb 27, 2014 /Dec 31,2014
Arkansas	anthraquinone	on rice seed to repel blackbirds	Feb 28, 2014 /Jun 1, 2014
California	etofenprox	in mushroom houses to control phorid and sciarid flies	Feb 7, 2014 / Feb 7, 2015
	boscalid	for post harvest use on Belgian endive to control the fungal pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum;	Feb 15, 2014/Nov 1, 2014
	potassium salt of hop beta acids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Jan 10, 2014 / Dec 31, 2014
Delaware	potassium salt of hop beta acids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Jan 10, 2014 / Dec 31, 2014
Delaware	thiabendazole	in mushroom houses to control trichoderma green mold	Jan 17, 2014 / Jan 17, 2015
Florida	propiconazole	on avocado to control laurel wilt	Mar 27, 2014 / Mar 27, 2017
Georgia	potassium salt of hop beta acids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Feb 27, 2014 / Dec 31,2014
Georgia	fluridone	in cotton to control palmer amaranth	Feb 28, 2014 / Aug 31, 2014.
Idaho	potassium salt of hop beta acids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Jan 31, 2014/Dec 31, 2014
Iowa	potassium salt of hop beta acids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Jan 23, 2014 / Dec 31, 2014
Illinois	potassium salt of hop beta acids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Jan 17, 2014 / Dec 31, 2014
Kansas	potassium salt of hop beta acids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Feb 27, 2014 / Dec 31,2014
Louisiana	anthraquinone	on rice seed to repel blackbirds	Feb 20, 2014/Jun 1, 2014.
Maryland	thiabendazole	in mushroom houses to control trichoderma green mold	Jan 17, 2014/ Jan 17, 2015
Michigan	kasugamycin	on apples to control fire blight	Mar 28, 2014 /May 31, 2014
Michigan	potassium salt of hop beta acids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Feb 27, 2014 / Dec 31, 2014
Minnesota	potassium salt of hop beta acids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Feb 27, 2014 / Dec 31, 2014
New York	potassium salt of hop betaacids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Mar 12, 2014 / Dec 31, 2014
North Carolina	fluridone	in cotton to control palmer amaranth	Feb 28, 2014 /Aug 31, 2014
Oregon	fenoxaprop-p-ethyl	in grasses grown for seed to control grassy weeds;	Jan 17, 2014 /Sep 15, 2014
Oregon	potassium salt of hop betaacids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Feb 27, 2014 / Dec 31,2014
Pennsylvania	thiabendazole	in mushroom houses to control trichoderma green mold	Jan 17, 2014 / Jan 17, 2015
South Carolina	fluridone	in cotton to control palmer amaranth	Feb 28, 2014/ Aug 31, 2014
South Carolina	potassium salt of hop beta acids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Mar 12, 2014/ Dec 31, 2014
Tennessee	fluridone	in cotton to control palmer amaranth	Feb 28, 2014/Aug 31, 2014.
Texas	flutriafol	on cotton to control cotton root rot	Feb1, 2014/ Jun 30, 2014
Texas	potassium salt of hop betaacids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Feb 27, 2014/ Dec 31,2014
Washington	potassium salt of hop betaacids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Jan 1, 2014 / Dec 31, 2014
Wisconsin	potassium salt of hop betaacids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Mar 12, 2014/ Dec 31, 2014
Wyoming	potassium salt of hop betaacids	in beehives to control varroa mite	Feb 27, 2014 / Dec 31, 2014
Wyoming	methyl bromide	on post-harvest unlabeled imported/ domestic commodities to prevent the introduction/spread of any new or recently introduced foreign pest(s) to any U.S. geographical location	Mar 1,2014 / Mar 1, 2017
Source: U.S. EPA