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.

Reviews the USDA's & EPA's implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act & the affects of the administration's decisions on public health. Witnesses: Wayne Carlson, Bayer Corp.; Ralph Engel, Chemical Spec. Mfrs. Assoc.; Kevin Gardner, Amer. Farm Bureau Fed.; Jerome Goddard, med. entomologist, Mississippi Dept. of Health & Clin. Assist.; George Gray, Harvard (Univ.) Center for Risk Analysis; E. Allen James, Responsible Ind. for a Sound Environ.; William Lovelady, Nat. Cotton Council; Peter Robertson, EPA; Richard Rominger, USDA; Robert Rosenberg, Nat. Pest Control Assoc.; & George Wichterman, Amer. Mosquito Control Assoc.