Advisers Question EPA Plan To Expand Use Of Pesticide Safety Factors

Members of a federal advisory committee are echoing industry concerns that EPA is overstepping its bounds with its new attempts to mitigate risks to agricultural workers and their children, who could be exposed to higher levels of chemicals used on non-food crops that may not be regulated under the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA). EPA's Tina Levine, of the agency's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Health Effects Division, discussed the policy and revised risk assessment methods during a meeting of...