Administration of Pesticide Laws and Regulations: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second Session. May 26, 1964 |
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action agencies alfalfa amounts ANDERSON animals Atchafalaya Rivers BEERMANN birds BRARY Bureau of Sport cause Chairman CLARKSON committee CONG CONGRESS THE LIBRARY COSTON COULTER crop Department of Agriculture Department of Health dieldrin drainage Drug Administration Education effects eggs endrin Federal Insecticide fish and wildlife fish kill Fisheries and Wildlife Food and Drug Fungicide HEIMBURGER heptachlor in milk illegal residues insecticides insects Interior investigation label LIBRARY OF CONGR LIBRARY OF CONGRESS loss of fish Louisiana lower Mississippi River March 19 measure ment million organisms Orleans PARKER pesticide chemical plant in Memphis POAGE poison press release problem programs Public Health Service question RARY OF CONGRESS registration regulations responsible RESS Rodenticide ROSENTHAL scientists Secretary Sport Fisheries statement studies Tenn tion treated areas U.S. Department USDA waste Water Pollution Water Pollution Control Welfare Wildlife Service Yazoo River zero tolerance
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Page 3 - 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 3 - 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 3 - 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 9 - The departmental representatives are authorized to review questions involving existing patterns of use of pesticides or tolerances upon which they have reason to believe that critical questions exist. 3. Conference : At least once each year the departmental representatives will arrange a general conference to discuss...
Page 20 - ... 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 1 - 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 29 - ... 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 6 - 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 4 - 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...
Page 9 - In the event agreement is not reached among the department representatives within two weeks of the initial objection, the matter will then be referred directly to the Secretary of the department responsible for final action with such information, views, and recommendations as the three department representatives deem appropriate.