Wrangling over pesticide ingredients comes to a head in 2015
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 15:20
in Mathematics & Economics
Consumer advocates are fighting a new rule proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency that aims to address concerns over "inert" ingredients, including fragrances and dyes, in pesticides for non-food use. They say the proposal, which could become final this year, doesn't go far enough to protect human health and the environment from the ingredients' potential impacts, according to an article in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society.