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Food Quality Protection Act

1. When the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) was passed in 1996 positive and negative impacts followed. Aggregate exposure was now taken into assessment, meaning the total sum of exposure to a pesticide would be considered when creating tolerance levels. Through combination of diet, drinking water, and home exposure to pesticides were also considered when creating tolerances. Exposure to children was a greater concern so a 10X safety factor was included to ensure that the legal tolerance for an adult was multiplied by ten to create a separate tolerance for children. A tolerance reassessment program was also created with a deadline that stated the EPA must reevaluate all tolerances that were in place as of 1996 within 10 years to bring everything up to current standards. So far so good, but there are some problems. In efforts to protect people from pesticide exposure (FQPA) set guidelines and rules which restricted pesticides or took them off the shelf completely because the...

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