MyPest: U.S. EPA Launches a Pesticide Submission Tracking App
23 May 2025
Real-Time Insights for Pesticide Product Registrant
Imagine this scenario: your company submits a pesticide application via the Central Data Exchange (CDX). After some time, you don’t receive any updates. You wait patiently, but still nothing. You reach out to no response. You start to wonder: is there a backlog at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Office of Pesticide Programs? Is the delay normal? Is your submission progressing smoothly and as it should?
Fortunately, on 18 April 2025 the U.S. EPA launched the latest version of its “MyPest” app. This tool allows pesticide registrants to monitor the status of their submissions in real time, providing much-needed transparency and peace of mind and the ability to communicate with the U.S. EPA directly within the app.
How does MyPest work?
Companies must first create an account in MyPest to gain access to the app’s benefits. Before users can see any information, the account owner must request a role in an organization that has a U.S. EPA company number. There are four roles to choose from, each with its own level of permissions:
- Role 1 – Company Administrator (CA): CAs can view the status of all current submissions in the app. Every organization must have a CA, and organizations can have multiple CAs.
- Role 2 – Company Representative (CR): CRs have the same level of data access as CAs, and like CAs, organizations can have multiple CRs.
- Role 3 – Consultant: Consultants can only view active submissions on the dashboard. Like CAs and CRs, multiple consultants can be designated.
- Role 4 – Contributor (Future): This designation is reserved for a potential future role in the app.
When a company first signs up to access MyPest, it must designate at least one individual to serve as the CA. The first registered employee must assume the administrator role; they will be responsible for approving or rejecting other requests to join the organization on the app. Although the first CA will need be approved directly by the U.S. EPA, subsequent CAs and other user roles will be approved by CAs.
In MyPest, an individual can have one role at multiple organizations—this is a thoughtfully designed feature for consultants and other professionals with multiple company affiliations. However, a user cannot have multiple roles within a single organization.
The U.S. EPA has expressed a commitment to further enhance and streamline the MyPest tool, so stay tuned for further updates!
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References
MyPest Application: Login Instructions
EPA Launches Updated Pesticide Registration Tracking App for Companies
