... And pesticides in food.. . . and pesticides in food Citing Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and (EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. ) data, a newNational Academy of Sciences study reports that 60 percent (by weight) of all herbicides used in the United States can cause tumors in animals, as can 90 percent (by volume) of all fungicides This page aims to list well-known chemical compounds, to stimulate the creation of Wikipedia articles. This list is not necessarily complete or up to date – if you see an article that should be here but isn't (or one that shouldn't be here but is), please update the page used and 30 percent (by volume) of all insecticides. Under the Delaney Clause, a provision of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act a regulation in the United States which requires all drugs used in animals to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. , pesticides capable of inducing cancer in animals or that accumulate in processed foods are not supposed to be granted "tolerances' (federally granted permissible limits) for their allowed presence in food. But, the NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular study finds, many of these oncogenic oncogenic /on·co·gen·ic/ (-jen´ik) giving rise to tumors or causing tumor formation; said especially of tumor-inducing viruses. on·co·gen·ic or on·cog·e·nous adj. pesticides--especially those granted "tolerances' more than 10 years ago--do find their way into foods. As a result, the study says, consistent enforcement of the Delaney Clause (for older pesticides as well as new ones, and for raw foods as well as processed ones) may force EPA to pull many agriculturally important and widely used pesticides off the market as these chemicals periodically come up for reregistration. The NAS panel would prefer to see adoption of a new"negligible risk' policy in enforcement of the Delaney Clause-- one that ignores chemicals whose presence in foods poses only a small risk to health and concentrates efforts on eliminating those which pose significant risk. For example, such a policy might initially focus on those 10 pesticides, used on only 15 different foods, that the panel estimates account for roughly 80 percent of the dietary risk posed by all pesticides. |
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