USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue has praised the Department of Justice (DoJ) for appealing the court order that requires the EPA to ban the insecticide, chlorpyrifos. USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue has praised the Department of Justice (DoJ) for appealing the court order that requires the EPA to ban the insecticide, chlorpyrifos. He warns that failure to reverse the decision could have serious impacts on US farmers by removing an 'effective and economical' insecticide from the market. Mr Perdue's support is hardly a surprise. The USDA joined the pesticide industry and other agricultural interests in criticising the EPA's plan to revoke food tolerances for chlorpyrifos.
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