Special Pesticide Registration by the Environmental Protection Agency Should Be Improved.

摘要

This report discusses the Environmental Protection Agency's program to regulate pesticides that are used for experimental and emergency purposes or that are registered by the states to meet special local needs. This report's contents are as follows:Experimental use permit program is not effective; Inefficiencies in administering emergency exemptions;Need to improve state pesticide registration program;The DDT emergency exemption for Douglas-fir tussock moth control: A case history.