Transcript Version Identification Number (VIN) for Pesticide Labels

Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
E-Label: Registration, Label
Identifiers & NPIRS Pilot Project
Steve L. Foss
Washington State Dept. of Agriculture
Victoria Cassens
Purdue University
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
eLabel State Registration Issues
SLAs are receiving a greater number of labels in electronic PDF format.
• Label exchange methods with states
• CD, email, or upload
• Email / elabel issues
• elabel repositories
• Version/date code or label identifiers
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Exchanging Elabels with
State Registration Programs
~ 20 states (~39%) accept Elabels on CD
AL, AZ, AR, CT, IL, LA, MD, MN, MO*, MT,
ND, OH, PA, RI, SD, TN, UT, VT, WI, WY
~14 states (~27%) accept Elabels via email
AZ, GA, HI, LA, MN, MO*, MS, ND, NV, OK,
SC, SD, UT, VT
* Require elabels be submitted in PDF format.
Source: RegWest Company LLC
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Exchange of eLabels:
Submission via Email Issues
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Exchange of eLabels:
eLabel acceptable
for viewing
Submission via Email Issues
Need to be able to print a legible
eLabel (corrupted file?)
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
eLabel Repositories: CDMS
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Repositories:
Kelly Registration Systems (KRS)
Submit Pesticide Documentation On Line
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Repositories:
SLN / Sec. 18 labeling on WSU’s website
WSDA started
exchanging
electronic copies of
SLN labels in early
1997 to improve
services.
Advantage: Quicker
turnaround time
compared to handling
and marking up paper
copies and sending
documents back/forth to
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registrants.
Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Approved Label State Tracking
and Repository (ALSTAR) system by NPIRS
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Exchange of elabels with
Educators & Applicators/Growers
Use of Repositories:
CLA’s Vision of the e-Label Process
• Applicators could obtain supplemental site
specific use instructions provided by dealer
or via the internet (recognized site):
 Single-crop use instructions
• Registrant ships product with basic labeling
information that rarely changes
 Product Name, Ingredient, EPA Reg. Number.
Ray McAllister, CropLife America – NPIRS Elabeling Forum
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Linking elabels to Keep Recommendations Up-to-Date
Chateau
(Flumioxazin)
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Types of Identifiers
• Registrant Generated
 number / date code
• System Generated Document ID
• Standard Label Version Identifier (VIN)
• Mathematically Calculated Global
Unique IDentifier (GUID)
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
eLabel State Registration Issue:
Identifiers
• WSDA Registration Specialists will look for
company identifiers on labels and enter this
code into our state pesticide registration
database (if we can find it!)
• ~ 17% of the 11,200+ labels reviewed have
no unique label identifier.
• SFIREG has recommended to EPA’s Label
Review Committee that a “standardized label
version code needs to be developed that will
identify a specific label by brand name and
whether it’s the latest version.
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Type 1: Registrant Generated Identifier
Many label ID’s are non-standard dates or include a date
Company
Product Name
Label ID
Bayer CropScience
Admire 2 Flowable
Insecticide
1/31/05
BASF
Acrobat 50WP
Fungicide
NVA 2005-05-171-0128
DuPont Crop
Protection
DuPont Cinch ATZ
Herbicide
H-64811; SL-969 120804 12-01-04
Gowan LLC
Gowan Cryolite Bait
02-R0201
Syngenta Crop
Protection
Bicep II Magnum
SCP 817A-L1M 1104
The Scotts Company Scotts GrubEx Season
Long Grub Control
5M 34405-3 2004
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Type 1:
Registrant Generated
Codes appear in
various areas on a
label, but are
usually found on
the front or last
page of product
labeling.
Label Id = SCP 817A-L1M 1104
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Type 1:
Registrant Generated
Some labels may multiple
identifiers or “Part
Numbers” on each label
component:
•Back Label: LB09952H011
•Front label: LB099699010
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Type 1:
Registrant Generated
• The identifier used by many registrants might
not be ‘unique' for the purpose of document
management and exchange with state
agencies.
• However, registrant generated codes (e.g.
revision dates) on certain types of labels, such
as SLN’s, may be adequate because the SLN
number is unique to the state label unlike
section 3 products, which may have multiple
brand names using the same EPA Reg.
Number.
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Type 2: System Generated Document ID
Used by New York State to index/id scanned label images
Document ID = 503307
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Type 2: System Generated Document ID
Same label registered in Hawaii
has a different Document ID
Document ID = 9226.249
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Type 2: System Generated Numerical Identifier
• Strengths: Unique, Standard, Useable
• Weakness: The same label is stored in
NPIRS under two different Product ID
Numbers:
oNY (503307)
oHI (9226249)
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Type 3: Standard Label Version Identifier (VIN)
• A structured VIN or GUID (Global
Unique Identifier) could be based upon
EPA’s Specification for Text PDF
Product Labels and used as the file
name for the label in PDF format.
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Type 3: Standard Label Version Identifier (VIN)
Product Trade Name
EPA Reg. No.
Bicep II Magnum
Bicep II Magnum FC Herbicide
DuPont Cinch ATZ Herbicide
100-817
100-817
100-817-352
Version
01
02
01
<000100 00817 000352> <20021002> <dl>
<01>
<EPANo>
<Verdate> <type> <verbrand>
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Type 3: Printing VIN / GUID on Labels
The GUID could
be printed on
labels to
facilitate the
linking of labels
to state
registration
data.
EPA Reg. No. Verdate
VIN / GUID = 8033-23-82695 (051205-1529)
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Type 4: Mathematically Calculated GUID Identifier
GUID (Globally Unique Identifier)
• Pseudo-random 128-bit values that is
statistically likely to be different from any
other generated code using freely available
software programs.
• Unique across both, space and time.
• Consists of five groups of hexadecimal digits.
8 digits
4
4
4
12 digits
Example: 6B29FC40-CA47-1067-B31D-00DD010662DA
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Type 4:
GUID Identifier is the DocumentID
or Metadata in PDF
(Select Document Properties / Description / Advanced)
GUID - UUID
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
Type 4:
GUID Identifier’s are XML tags
CLA’s Vision for e-Label Process (Ray McAllister, NPIRS Elabel Forum)
Registrant prepares labels in standardized
electronic format.
• XML fields define information content.
• PDF defines appearance of label.
Structured Product Labeling (SPL) is a standard adopted by FDA
XML details: The identifying information is in the form:
<id root="6B29FC40-CA47-067-B31D-00DD010662DA"/>
The <id root> is a GUID for the specific
document SPL instance and will differ for every
regulatory submission.
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Western Region Pesticide Meeting
Portland, OR
May 2007
ALSTAR- Vicki Cassens, NPIRS
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