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Pesticide Issues
The articles provided under the pesticide issues heading are intended to discuss some of the more controversial issues surrounding pesticide use and exposure.Pesticides and water
Pesticide use/risk reduction
- EPA issues notice for public involvement in risk reduction decisions on registered pesticides 8/10/94
- EPA initiative to reduce pesticide use (NAS recs.& food safety) 8/93
- Reducing Pesticide Risk (External Links)
- Minimum Risk Pesticides Exempted under FIFRA Section 25(b) Clarification of Issues (PDF)
Pesticides in the diets of infants and children
- NAS report -- executive summary release (6/29/93)
- Cornell University's response to the NAS report
- Carl Winter (UC Davis) responds to the NAS report
- Risk/Exposure related to pesticides in the diet (Carl Winter)
- USDA, EPA, & FDA joint announcement regarding the NAS report
- NRDC pre-release summary of NAS report
- USDA's pre-release summary of NAS report
- Cancernet database access information (External Links)
Pesticides and food safety
- Proposed EPA/plaintiff agreement for carcinogens in food (Delaney)
- Rebuttal to CBS' 48 Hours food safety program 5/94
- EPA fact sheet (2/23/89)
- Questions and Answers on Food Safety
- Are pesticides posing intolerable risks? (1989)
- Questions And Answers On Lawn Pesticides (EPA)
- Chronic health effects of pesticides: an outline (1989)
The Delaney paradox and negligible risk
(some information here is superseded by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996))- EPA adopts policies governing tolerance revocation actions under Delaney clause (6/9/95)
- EPA proposes revocation of food additive regulations for four pesticides in certain processed foods 1/12/95
- Proposed EPA/plaintiff agreement for carcinogens in food (Delaney)
- EPA lists pesticides possibly affected by Delaney 2/93
- The Delaney paradox and negligible risk fact sheet (8/91)
- The Delaney paradox and negligible risk fact sheet (EPA, 1/90)
Risk/benefit balancing under FIFRA
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