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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; Long title: An Act to regulate the marketing of economic poisons and devices, and for other purposes: Acronyms (colloquial) FIFRA: Enacted by: the 80th United States Congress: Effective: June 25, 1947: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 80–104: Statutes at Large: 61 Stat. 163: Codification ...
FIFRA was enacted in 1947 and was a collaboration between the federal government and the chemical industry. It resulted from the increase in pesticide production during and after World War II. [ 3 ] At that time, the concern about pesticides was related to pesticide efficacy and producer honesty.
1970 – Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act; 1970 – Environmental Quality Improvement Act; 1972 – Federal Water Pollution Control Amendments of 1972 (P.L. 92-500). Major rewrite. 1972 – Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (amended by Food Quality Protection Act of 1996)
— Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) – major amendments — (June 14) After seven months of hearings, the United States Environmental Protection Agency bans most uses of DDT. [24] — The Trust for Public Land founded. — Values Party founded. — A Blueprint for Survival published.
Factors that historians note spurred innovation and discovery include the 17th century Scientific Revolution and the 18th/19th century Industrial Revolution. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Another possible influence is the British patent system which had medieval origins and was codified with the Patent Act of 1852.
1983: Kary Mullis invents the polymerase chain reaction, a key discovery in molecular biology; 1986: Karl Müller and Johannes Bednorz: Discovery of High-temperature superconductivity; 1988: Bart van Wees and colleagues at TU Delft and Philips Research discovered the quantized conductance in a two-dimensional electron gas.
1855: The discovery of the first coal ball by Joseph Dalton Hooker who later on with partner William Binney made the first scientific description of coal balls. 1859: Theories of evolution by natural selection and sexual selection set out in On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1809–1882).
The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA), or H.R.1627, was passed unanimously by Congress in 1996 and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 3, 1996. [1] The FQPA standardized the way the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would manage the use of pesticides and amended the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act.