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Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA)

Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA). Rochelle Weerackoon. FQPA. Establishes new safety standards for pesticide residues in food and emphasizes protecting the health of infants and children: provided special protections for babies and infants streamlined the approval of safe pesticides

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Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA)

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  1. Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA) Rochelle Weerackoon

  2. FQPA • Establishes new safety standards for pesticide residues in food and emphasizes protecting the health of infants and children: • provided special protections for babies and infants • streamlined the approval of safe pesticides • established incentives for the creation of safer pesticides • required that pesticide registrations remain current

  3. Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA) • Legislation similar to FQPA drafted in 1995 but never acted on • Passed unanimously by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996 • political landscape had changed and new pressures to act on pesticide control reform had surfaced • Amended: • Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) • Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) • by fundamentally changing the way EPA regulates pesticides. • National Uniformity: • Prohibits state and local governments from setting pesticide tolerances than established by the U.S EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)

  4. Environmental Protection Agency • Congress presented EPA with FQPA • an enormous challenge of implementing the most comprehensive and historic overhaul of the Nation's pesticide and food safety laws in decades

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