Pesticide Reform Gets OK’d

Farm leaders and chemical manufacturers say they welcome an end to conditional federal licensing of pesticides after years of protest. Regulators said by June 1 they will abolish the practice of licensing chemicals without full, public health and environmental risk assessments: “They were ‘temporary’ but have lasted anywhere from 10 to 20 years”.

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