Introduction

The registration of pesticide products involves a rigorous exchange of information between regulatory agencies and registrant companies. The Accepted Labels State Tracking and Repository (ALSTAR) application will focus on the exchange of information between state regulatory agencies and registrant companies. While several state agencies request diverse data, documentation, and product labeling information from registrants, most states require identical or similar information. This specifically pertains to pesticide product labeling. The ALSTAR application being developed by the National Pesticide Information Retrieval System (NPIRS) at Purdue University will provide the capability to both registrants and states to streamline the exchange and use of these common data.

Goals

The principal development goals of the ALSTAR project are:

• to provide a secure standardized process for the submission of electronic documents including product labels from registrants to the state regulatory agencies
  
• to create a process for regulatory agencies to easily manage a repository of state-specific approved or accepted labels
  
• to design an application that is dynamic enough in nature to allow for growth as future goals are defined