H.R. 1627... "The Food Quality
and Protection Act of 1996"

Viewpoints

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• The 1998 ESA-APS Annual Meeting: The Food Quality Protection Act and Pest Management Systems: Is the Sun Rising or are Clouds Forming? November 8-12, 1998
  To View or download the papers presented at the 1998 ESA-APS FQPA Symposium

• '96 Food Act Threatening: ACPA Head, by Dan Bryant in California-Arizona Farm Press Saturday, February 7, 1998

• The 'Wake-Up Challenge' continues...in "Role Model" a March 1997 editorial by Len Richardson in California Farmer

• In a March 15, 1997 story in the California-Arizona Farm Press, Rhone-Poulenc Ag. Co. registration manager acknowledges that agricultural lobbyists were  "caught napping"  in the days just prior to passage of the Food Quality Protection Act.

• "Calculating total risk is likely to doom some pesticide products" commentary by David Hanson in Chemical and Engineering News, February 3, 1997. Implementation challenges

• In the September-October issue of Dealer Progress, published by the Fertilizer Institute, Editor K. Elliot Nowels presents a candid good news - bad news appraisal of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996. His editorial is titled Ding, Dong, Delaney is Dead in keeping with Charlotte Sine's refrain

• The Lesson of Delaney Editorial, Farm Chemicals, September, 1996 by Charlotte Sine

• The Real Pests Aren't in the Food Editorial, Wall Street Journal - September 19, 1996 by Jonathan Tolman (environmental policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute)

• Wake-up Call EDITORIALLY SPEAKING California Farmer, September 1996 by Len Richardson

• Sanet Post 9/12/96 Patricia Dines

• The Food Quality Protection Act: A Trojan Iceburg In Agrichemical and Environmental News, Issue No. 126, August 1996 by Alan Schrieber

• The optimistic view of the pesticide industry upon the passage of the "Food Quality Protection Act" was stated in an August editorial by Dale L. Little, Group Editor of Farm Chemicals.

• Letter - August 27, 1996 from Steve Forsberg, Executive Director of the Western Crop Protection Association (WCPA) re: Benbrook letter

• Letter - July 31, 1996 from Charles Benbrook to California State Senator Thompson

• Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) News Release NRDC Supports House Passage of Bill that Could Curb Dangerous Pesticides, Lead to Safer Food Supply    Released July 23, 1996

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Last Updated on 8/31/99
By Karen Lutz
Email: karen@hillnet.com