EPA Urged To Craft Pesticide Criteria For Assessing 'Aggregate' Risks

摘要

A GOP lawmaker is asking EPA to clarify how and when it accounts for non-pesticidal substances in aggregate pesticide risk assessments that the agency uses for setting food safety tolerances, a request that could force the agency to define its practice for determining how chemically similar, non-pesticidal sources, such as naturally occurring substances and Pharmaceuticals, contribute to a pesticide's aggregate risks.