This report details the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) progress in implementing the requirements of the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA). It reflects how implementation furthers EPA's mission to protect human health & the environment & assures all Americans access to safe & affordable foods. Sections include: FQPA -- the basics; lowering the risks of pesticides; ensuring the safety of existing pesticides; transparency & public participation; special protection for vulnerable populations; on the forefront of sound science; partners & other stakeholders; & appendices.

The Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA), enacted on August 3,1996, brought about significant changes in the way in which pesticides are registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). If not implemented properly, the new requirements of FQPA could lead to the removal from the market of a number of beneficial pesticide products and cause substantial disruptions for agriculture in the United States. For many of these products, there is no suitable alternative pest control tool or the substitute pesticide may not be as efficacious or it may be more costly. Ultimately, the potential loss of many existing products could place American farmers at a disadvantage with foreign growers in competing nations who will continue to enjoy access to a variety of effective pesticides in use today. EPA must rely upon the principles of sound science and base its decisions on actual data when making these important FQPA decisions.

Excerpt from The Impact of the Food Quality Protection Act Implementation on Public Health: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives As Congress developed the legislation, I worked hard to assure that using modern technology the Nation's food supply would be as safe as possible. I also believe that it was our intent, in passing the Food Quality Protection Act, to ensure that American consumers would continue to enjoy tremendous nutritional benefits from an affordable and abundant food supply. I encourage this committee to keep these goals in mind - safety, affordability, and abundance - as you exercise oversight on epa's implementation of the Food Qual ity Protection Act. It is these three issues that have a Member from an urban area - and to be specific, Brooklyn, NY - with no agricultural pro duction, appearing before you today. Our food must be safe, and the Food Quality Protection Act should be implemented in a man ner that avoids the increase in food prices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.