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Article: Statement of CropLife America on pesticide testing involving human subjects.(Correspondence)
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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As the regulatory policy leader of CropLife America, the national trade association representing the crop protection industry, I would like to respond to the letter from Sass and Needleman, which criticizes human testing of pesticides.
On 14 December 2001, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) commissioned the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to examine the "scientific and ethical issues" posed by the U.S. EPA's use of human tests in registering pesticides and evaluating environmental contaminants and other chemicals in order to set safe levels of exposure. The NAS position is important because the U.S. EPA has conducted human studies on environmental ...