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Pesticide Regulation Issues: Living with the Delaney Clause

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Craig Osteen
Craig Osteen*
Affiliation:
National Agricultural Pesticide Impact Assessment Program (NAPIAP) and Economic Research Service, USDA, Washington, D.C.
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Abstract

Pesticide use is regulated within a complex legal framework that includes the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; and other environmental laws. The framework includes risk-benefit rules for some decisions that permit full consideration of comparative performance, cost, and risks of a pesticide and its alternatives before decisions to permit or ban uses. The framework also includes risk-only standards, such as the Delaney Clause, that prohibit such comparisons and can have unintended and undesirable consequences by increasing health or environmental risks while increasing the cost of producing agricultural commodities.

Keywords

Delaney Clausefood safetypesticide regulation
Type
Invited Papers and Discussions
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , July 1994 , pp. 60 - 74
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1994

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