• Pesticides Review Risks Product Loss, by Dan Bryant, in California-Arizona Farm Press , January 3, 1998

• "Turning Politics into Policy" by Bill Sray in Farm Chemicals, December, 1996

• The critical votes on the "Food Quality Protection Act" occurred in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, July 24th and the next day in the Senate. In the five days prior to passage, the bill was fundamentally transformed, resulting in a major change in the political dynamics that had for many years stalled food safety reform legislation. The Washington Post carried an analysis of what happened in its Sunday, July 28th edition.

• California Farmer, September 1996 Beyond Zero Risk by Len Richardson
  

• Kansas Farmer, September 1996 Zero Risk by Len Richardson
  This version of "Beyond Zero Risk" focuses on the possible impacts of H.R. 1627 on herbicides found in Midwestern drinking water

• The Packer is the major weekly trade newspaper of the fresh produce industry. In its August 12, 1996 issue, Washington correspondent Larry Waterfield described the atmosphere at the August 3rd signing ceremony. His article is entitled Bill Called a Boon to Consumers and was among the first to break the news to the agricultural industry that H.R. 1627 as passed was a very different bill than the one the food, agricultural and pesticide industries had so strongly supported in the previous three years.
  
  

Last Updated on 3/14/98
By Karen Lutz
Email: karen@hillnet.com