TITLE: Impact of the Food Quality Protection Act Implementation on Public Health

CIS-NO: 99-H161-40  
SOURCE: Committee on Agriculture. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: Aug. 3, 1999  
LENGTH: iii+104 p.  
CONG-SESS: 106-1  
ITEM-NO: 1010-A; 1010-B  
SUDOC: Y4.AG8/1:106-29  


SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-29. Hearing before the Subcom on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry to review USDA and EPA implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) of 1996, which revises Federal pesticide regulatory programs by replacing the Delaney clause with a single negligible risk assessment-based standard applicable to tolerances of pesticide residues in raw and processed foods, and by facilitating registration of pesticides for low-volume use on minor crops.
 
Focuses on public health aspects of FQPA implementation.
 
Supplementary material (p. 55-104) includes witnesses' written statements and written replies to Subcom questions, and a submitted statement.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Pesticides regulatory programs revision, implementation review

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS, OVERSIGHT, NUTRITION, AND FORESTRY. HOUSE;  PESTICIDES; FOOD ADULTERATION AND INSPECTION; DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY; FOOD INDUSTRY; PRODUCT SAFETY; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION; RISK ANALYSIS; FOOD QUALITY PROTECTION ACT; DELANEY CLAUSE; PUBLIC HEALTH

99-H161-40 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Aug. 3, 1999 p. 5-8
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   TOWNS, EDOLPHUS (Rep, D-NY)
 
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
   Views on FQPA implementation.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Pesticides regulatory programs revision, implementation review
 
 
99-H161-40 TESTIMONY NO: 2     Aug. 3, 1999 p. 13-34, 88-104
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   ROMINGER, RICHARD E. (Deputy Secretary, USDA)
   ROBERTSON, PETER D. (Acting Deputy Administrator, EPA)
   LOVELADY, WILLIAM T. (Board Chairman, National Cotton Council)
   CARLSON, WAYNE (Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Field Development, Agriculture Division, Bayer Corp)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Differing views on USDA and EPA FQPA implementation; elaboration on FQPA implementation and related issues, including pesticides public health impact.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Pesticides regulatory programs revision, implementation review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   NATIONAL COTTON COUNCIL
 
 
99-H161-40 TESTIMONY NO: 3     Aug. 3, 1999 p. 35-70, 75-82
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   ENGEL, RALPH (President, Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Association)
   GRAY, GEORGE M. (Deputy Director, Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health)
   GODDARD, JEROME (Medical Entomologist, Mississippi Department of Health)
   WICHTERMAN, GEORGE (Chairman, Public Health Pesticide Working Group, American Mosquito Control Association)
   ROSENBERG, ROBERT M. (Director, Governmental Affairs, National Pest Control Association)
   JAMES, E. ALLEN (Executive Director, Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment)
   GARDNER, KEVIN (Chairman, Young Farmer and Rancher Committee, American Farm Bureau Federation)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Concerns regarding EPA FQPA implementation, including public health aspects; need for HHS to fund studies necessary to maintain safe pesticides to combat vector-borne diseases; perspectives on FQPA implementation.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Pesticides regulatory programs revision, implementation review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   CHEMICAL SPECIALTIES MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION; DISEASES AND DISORDERS; DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES