Administrative Order No. 2019- 0008 concerning New Rules and Regulations in the Registration of Household Pesticide Products and Their Active Ingredients.

This Order aims to: Provide guidelines on the registration of household pesticide products; and Establish guidelines for product stewardship, as applicable, in the market of household pesticide products.
The guidelines shall cover household pesticide products and their active ingredient/s and the establishments that are engaged in the manufacture, importation, exportation, sale, offer for sale, distribution, donation, transfer, and where applicable, the use, testing, promotion, advertising, or sponsorship of such household pesticide products and/or active ingredient/s. The applicant for registration of household pesticide product and the active ingredient/s for use in the formulation of a household pesticide product shall be a holder of a valid LTO as Household Pesticide Establishment issued by the FDA. All household pesticide products intended to be manufactured, imported, exported, sold, offered for sale, distributed, transferred, and where applicable, used, promoted, advertised, and/or sponsored shall be registered with the FDA in a per formulation and per packaging material type basis. For a household pesticide product with dual use as agricultural pesticide, the applicant shall register such dual-use pesticide product with both the FDA and FPA.