New pesticide law drops "zero-tolerance" standard, focuses on exposures to children

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The Food Quality Protection Act requires the EPA to abolish the zero-tolerance level for pesticide residues in processed food and raw agricultural products. The law, signed on Aug. 3, 1996, orders the EPA to consider aggregate exposure levels to pesticide residues and other related substances, and to consider the health effects of pesticide ingredients. It puts emphasis on the risk of pesticides to children rather than on its risk to adults. Environmentalists believe the new law gives EPA a strong base to work on as far as cancer prevention is concerned.

Administration of Air and Water Resource and Solid Waste Management Programs, Pesticides Regulation, Pesticide residues

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Particulate, ozone standards to be coupled, released late in year

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The EPA will merge air quality standards for particulate matter and ozone. The combination of controls for each pollutant will be undertaken since their formation processes are connected and since they have many of the same precursors. The tougher standards are also directed at many of the same sources, such as power plants, automobiles, petroleum refineries, mining and smelting operations and factories. The joint proposal for the two pollutants will be issued in Nov. 1996.

Waste Management and Remediation Services, Industrial Gas Manufacturing, Industrial gases, Ozone, Particulate Pollutants, Administration of Environmental Quality Programs, Pollution Control-Total Govt, Standards, Pollution control, Pollutants

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Proposed cancer risk guidelines open door to use of new data

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EPA has proposed new guidelines for cancer risk assessments to allow scientists to collect more information on the structure, mechanism of action and effects of regulated chemicals and pollutants. The guidelines will replace the alphanumeric cancer classification system currently used by the agency. EPA has also proposed a new system for calculating the dose level that can cause cancer in humans based on animal test data.

Analysis, Hazardous substances, Hazardous substances risk assessment, Carcinogens

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