Pesticide Policy Issues Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Pesticide Policy Issues

Creator

  • Author: Schierow, Linda-Jo
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Environment and Natural Resources Policy Division

Publisher

  • Name: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
    Place of Publication: Washington D.C.

Date

  • Creation: 1996-12-04

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: On August 3, 1996, President Clinton signed P.L. 104-170, which contains significant amendments to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA). Although it does not repeal the Delaney Clause, the new law removes pesticide residues from its purview. It requires EPA to set "safe" tolerances for residues of pesticides on both raw and processed food to provide "a reasonable certainty of no harm" from exposure to the pesticide residue, other dietary residues, and non-food sources. It also will expedite pesticide registration under FIFRA for minor uses; improve data collection on the effect of pesticides in children's diets; and prohibit states from regulating food based on pesticide residue concentrations below recently established federal tolerances.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Agriculture
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Pesticides policy - Law and legislation
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Hazardous substances

Collection

  • Name: Congressional Research Service Reports
    Code: CRSR

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • CRS Report Number: IB95016
  • Accession or Local Control No: IB95016 1996-12-04
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metacrs284
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