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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 ...
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)
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.
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.
1871 and 1885: Discovery of the phenomenon Rayleigh scattering (which can be used to explain why the sky is blue), and prediction of the existence of surface waves by John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842–1919). [124] 1897: Discovery of the electron by J. J. Thomson (1856–1940).
This is a list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in 2000. Acts passed since 1963 are cited by calendar year, [ 1 ] as opposed to the convention used for earlier acts of citing the regnal year(s) in which the relevant parliamentary session was held. [ 2 ]
2001: The first draft of the Human Genome Project is published. [131] 2003: Grigori Perelman presents proof of the Poincaré Conjecture. 2003: The Human Genome Project sequences the human genome with a 92% accuracy. [132] 2004: Ben Green and Terence Tao announce their proof on arithmetic progressions in prime numbers known as the Green–Tao ...
In 2010 Powles stated: "glyphosate is a one in a 100-year discovery that is as important for reliable global food production as penicillin is for battling disease." [ 32 ] As of April 2017, the Canadian government stated that glyphosate was "the most widely used herbicide in Canada", [ 33 ] at which date the product labels were revised to ...