Okay, what are the primary environmental protection
laws regarding pesticides?
Well to start with, there’s the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.
The second one is the Federal Environmental
Pesticide Control Act.
Well the purpose of these acts are to require
registration of these types of chemicals that
are being produced or imported into United
States.
There’s labeling requirements, there’s
use requirements or storage requirements,
there’s instructions requirements, there’s
training requirements on the use.
But the essence of the environmental protection
aspect of these aspects on top of just the
consumer protection aspects is the use is
limited to certain uses and those uses take
into consideration what they will do to the
ambient environment and [inaudible 00:00:53]
the effect of the chemical itself, what it
seeks to achieve, and the effects that it
will have on different species in the environment.
So it will take into consideration all of
these and the Environmental Protection Agency
must grant permission for these types of chemicals
or agents to be introduced and they can set
limitation on it and they can again, if these
limitations aren’t followed, they can restrict
the use of it, restrict the production or
importation of it and ban it completely.
So again, it’s an environmental protection
statute in that way on top of a consumer safety
product standard.
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