Dietary Exposure and Risk Index (DERI)

Ecological Risks

• Dr. Pierre Mineau, a leading expert on pesticide ecotoxicology, praises Novartis for its decision to withdraw monocrotophos, an OP insecticide responsible for bird kills throughout the developing world, including the death of Swainson's Hawks in Argentina. Questions whether other companies selling this high-risk pesticide "will follow suite, starting with American Cyanamid."
• Dr. John Atkin, head of Novartis insecticide division, announces that the company will phase out of use worldwide 15 of its 26 registered insecticides , including several high-risk products under pressure because of the FQPA. In the announcement, Dr. Atkin states that new Novartis products coming on-stream --
  

  
          "...can offer viable alternatives to farmers from the new portfolio,
  
  which covers just about every crop use application in every important market..."
  
  

• EPA Reduced Risk Comments on EPA Reduced Risk by Michael Hansen and Charles Benbrook on behalf of Consumer's Union, July 17, 1997