Administration of Pesticide Laws and Regulations: Hearing Before ..., 88-2, May 26, 19641964 - 39 pages |
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Page 4 - 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 4 - economic poison" means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any insects, rodents, fungi, weeds, and other forms of plant or animal life or viruses, except viruses on or in living man or other nnininls, which the Secretary shall declare to be a pest.
Page 36 - I do not want to leave the committee with the impression that the Democratic Central Committee generally opposes highway and freeway projects.
Page 4 - Economic poison" means (1) any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any insects, rodents, nematodes, fungi, weeds, and other forms of plant or animal life or viruses, except viruses on or in living man or other animals, which the Secretary of Agriculture shall declare to be a pest, and (2) any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant.
Page 21 - ... 3. Toxicity studies related to wildlife The Panel recommends expanded research and evaluation by the Department of the Interior of the toxic effects of pesticides on wild vertebrates and invertebrates. The study of wildlife presents a unique opportunity to discover the effects on the food chain of which each animal is a part, and to determine possible pathways through which accumulated and, in some cases, magnified pesticide residues can find their way directly or indirectly to wildlife and to...
Page 38 - ... its considerations. It is a mechanism that effectively addresses the full scope of Government responsibilities to the protection of human life, agriculture, and wildlife from the possible adverse effects of the application of pesticides. The Federal Committee on Pest Control and the interdepartmental agreement — between the Departments of Agriculture, Interior, and Health, Education, and Welfare — provide efficient and effective mechanisms both to review all proposed Federal programs and...
Page 7 - Welfare with any certification of usefulness under this subsection an opinion, based on the data before him, whether the tolerance or exemption proposed by the petitioner reasonably reflects the amount of residue likely to result when the pesticide chemical is used in the manner proposed for the purpose for which the certification is made.
Page 5 - As a matter of routine procedure, USDA scientists consult on questions of pesticide safety with expert authorities in other scientific institutions, including foundations, universities, and other agencies of the Federal Government. These experts contribute information and experience to supplement that already available.
Page 2 - COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 :10 am, in room 1310, Longworth House Office Building, Washington, DC, Hon.
Page 5 - This brings us face to face with the two big questions : Will the product be effective for its proposed use'.' And — the matter we are most concerned about here — will it be safe to use? The data submitted by the manufacturer is studied by the Pesticides Regulation Division of the Agricultural Research Service, which is manned by a competent staff of scientists, including pharmacologists, entomologists, bacteriologists, chemists, biologists, and plant pathologists. Safety evaluation of the proposed...