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The EPA was given the authority to refuse registration to any pesticide it concluded had risks for humans, wildlife, and/or the environment that outweighed the pesticide's benefits. [14] In addition, pesticide registration data was required to be made available to the public after a pesticide had been registered.
In 1988, Congress amended the pesticide registration provisions requiring re-registration of many pesticides that had been registered before 1984. [7] The act was amended again in 1996 by the Food Quality Protection Act. [9] More recently the act was amended in 2012 by the Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2012. [10]
The Agriculture Department protects and educates consumers about Oklahoma’s agricultural and livestock productions. Its purpose is to develop and execute policy on farming, agriculture, and food. It aims to meet the needs of farmers and ranchers, promote agricultural trade and production, work to assure food safety, protect natural resources ...
The National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC) is a collaboration between Oregon State University and the United States Environmental Protection Agency to provide objective, science-based information about pesticides, the recognition and management of pesticide poisonings, toxicology and environmental chemistry. It is funded through a ...
The Pesticide Data Program (PDP) is a program initiated in 1991 by the Agricultural Marketing Service division of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The PDP is empowered to collect pesticide residue data on selected food commodities, primarily fruits and vegetables. PDP produces an annual summary; the last such summary for 2016 ...
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The word pesticide derives from the Latin pestis (plague) and caedere (kill). [5]The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has defined pesticide as: . any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, or controlling any pest, including vectors of human or animal disease, unwanted species of plants or animals, causing harm during or otherwise interfering with the ...
An experimental use permit is a permit under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136c) that authorizes the testing of new pesticides or uses thereof in experimental field studies on 10 acres (40,000 m 2) or more of land or 1-acre (4,000 m 2) or more of water. Such tests provide data to support registration of ...