一、EPA认证是什么意思
EPA是美国环境保护局( u.senvironmental protectionagency)的英文简称。其主要任务是保护本国人民的健康及自然环境、空气、水和土地，我们赖以生存的生态环境。
EPA认证：属于美国一种强制性环保认证。
二、农药出口美国EPA认证：如何确定农药是否需要注册EPA认证？
How do I find out if a pesticide is registered withEPA?
如何确定农药是否注册EPA？
The EPA hosts several different in-house portals topesticide information and there are a couple of excellent second party portalhosts:
EPA拥有几个不同的农药信息网站，并有几个优秀的二级网站：
PesticideChemical Search is helpful for finding historical and ongoingregulatory and scientific information about specific pesticide active ingredients.
农药化学检索有助于发现历史和监管的发展以及关于具体农药活性的科学信息。
The Pesticide Product LabelSystem provides links to EPA-approved labeling of primary registeredproducts (distributor products will not show up in results)
农药产品标签系统提供了指向EPA准许的主要注册产品标签的链接（分销商产品不会显示在结果中）
The PesticideProduct Information System is the full database of EPA-registered pesticides.The database files are mostly useful to people who are familiar withsetting up databases.
农药产品信息系统是EPA农药注册的完整数据库。数据库文件对于熟悉设置数据库的人员非常有用。
Perhaps the easiest way to figure out if apesticide is EPA-registered is to search for it using the National Pesticide Information Center'sProduct Research Online. NPIC is an EPA information-sharing partnerwith extensive experience in pesticide-related exposure issues. NPIC NPROpermits searches for all pesticide products, even "distributorproducts" that have three-part EPA Registration Numbers.
也许最简单的用来确定农药是否注册EPA的方法是使用国家农药信息中心的产品研究在线搜索。NPIC是EPA信息共享合作伙伴，在农药相关的暴露问题方面拥有丰富的经验。NPIC NPRO允许搜索所有农药产品，甚至是EPA第三部门注册号的“经销商产品。”
Purdue University's National Pesticide InformationRetrieval System is another EPA information-sharing partner NPIRS provides a user-friendly portal toEPA's PPIS database, which allows anyone with internet access to search forpesticides by primary registered product name, Primary company name, two-partEPA Reg. No. or active ingredient. EPAprovided initial funding for NPIRS, and we regularly update the PPIS filesonline.
普渡大学的国家农药信息检索系统是EPA另一个信息共享合作伙伴。NOIRS为EPA的PPIS数据库提供了一个友好的用户门户，允许任何有互联网访问权限的人员通过产品主要注册名称，主要公司名称，两部分EPA注册或活性成分。EPA为NPIRS提供了初始资金，我们定期在线更新PPIS文件。
