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| Author(s): | Cox, Caroline |
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| Author Affiliation: | Editor, Journal of Pesticide Reform |
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| Title: | No guarantee of safety |
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| Section: | Pesticide Registration
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| Source: | Journal of Pesticide Reform. Vol. 17, No. 2, Summer 1997, p. 2-9. |
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| Publishing Information: | Eugene, OR: Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides |
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| # of Pages: | 8 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Pesticide usage legislation; Chemical safety; Chemical exposure; Public health and safety legislation; Pesticides; Federal legislation; Safety; Risk; Health
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| Abstract/Contents: | "Our national pesticide law is not a health- or safety-based law. Instead, it is based on risk-benefit analysis: if a pesticide offers enough economic benefits, it can be registered, no matter how threatening its hazards. It is nearly impossible to do a sound risk-benefit analysis. There is no satisfactory way, for example, to weigh the costs of two million dead birds, or 100 children born with birth defects, against the profit margins of chemical manufacturing companies. The registration process is cumbersome and expensive, but it misses or ignores many important effects. Pesticides are registered while important health and safety data are still being generated; reevaluations of old pesticides mandated by laws passed in the 1970s are still incomplete; pesticides may continue to be used after evidence of their hazards is given to EPA; and pesticides may never be required to be tested for certain kinds of hazards. True resolution of these problems will come only when we develop and implement alternative pest management techniques." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 69 |
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| Note: | Includes sidebar "Table salt, aspirin, and pesticides", p. 4, "Food tolerances", p. 6-7
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Cox, C. 1997. No guarantee of safety. J. Pest. Reform. 17(2):p. 2-9. |
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