EPA Advisors To Review White Paper On Climate's Pesticide Use Impacts

摘要

EPA's Science Advisory Panel (SAP) for pesticides will next year review an under-development agency white paper on examining and addressing the impact climate change has on pesticide use, a key agency pesticides official says, which appears to meet environmentalists' push for the agency to seek SAP's expert input on the document.rnDebbie Edwards, head of EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs, told a Nov. 12 Bird Conservation Alliance meeting in Washington, DC, that the agency will in 2010 seek review of its white paper by its SAP, which was created under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide & Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). The seven-member panel of biologists, toxicologists and other experts provide independent scientific advice to EPA on a range of pesticide health and safety issues.