Effects of Pesticides on Sports and Commercial Fisheries: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, First Session ... May 19, 1969, Part 1Committee Serial No. 91-15. Considers the effects of DDT and similar agricultural pesticides on fish in Lake Michigan. Sept. 29 hearing was held in Lansing, Mich., and Sept. 30 hearing was held in Muskegon, Mich. |
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Page 106 - ... is administered by the Food and Drug Administration of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Page 60 - That there shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Labor, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 14 - American merchant marine, to be composed of five members of the Senate and five members of the House of Representatives.
Page 62 - An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes...
Page 225 - Pesticide residues in food. Joint report of the FAO Working Party on Pesticide Residues and the WHO Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues.
Page 62 - This act included many additional products and provided for the registration of products before they could be moved in interstate commerce. The concept of the act is based on assuring safety and effectiveness of pesticide products. In 1959 the act was amended to include nematicides, plant regulators, defoliants, and desiccants. The scope of activities under the act was further extended with the adoption in 1962 of a regulation declaring certain forms of plant and animal life and viruses to be pests...
Page 173 - ... peaches, pears, peppers, pimentos, plums (fresh prunes) , potatoes, quinces, radishes, radish tops, salsify roots, strawberries, summer squash, sweet potatoes, tomatoes. Zero in or on alfalfa, beans, black-eyed peas, clover, collards, corn grain, corn forage, cowpeas, cowpea hay, endive (escarole) , garden beets, garden beet tops, grain sorghum, grain sorghum forage, kale, kohlrabi, lespedeza, mustard greens, peas, pea hay, popcorn, rutabagas, salsify tops, spinach, soybeans, soybean hay, Swiss...
Page 247 - INTRODUCTION Man's primary concerns have always been the struggle for survival and improvement of his lot. As his numbers increased, he attained greater ability to manipulate his environment. In the process he sometimes inflicted damage on himself and on his surroundings. Advances have always entailed a degree of risk which society must weigh and either accept, or reject, as the price of material progress. A major step in civilization was the domestication of food plants. With the birth of organized...
Page 276 - ... 5. That public funds for research on chemical methods of pest control be increased without sacrifice of effort on nonchemical methods. 6. That the present system of regulation, inspection, and monitoring to protect man and his food supply from pesticide contamination be continued. 7. That the objectives and procedures of the National Pesticide Monitoring Program be reviewed and that the feasibility of obtaining data on quantities of persistent pesticides in the biosphere be studied.
Page 83 - no residue" and "zero tolerance" as employed In the registration and regulation of pesticides are scientifically and administratively untenable and should be abandoned.