SPSFAM Meeting eBook March 2017

3/9/2017

Background:  Summary • Pesticides are clearly a problem

• United States • International • No federal oversight • Little to no state oversight • What little oversight that does exist, is not necessarily based on  empirical science

Task? Advisory Panel Goals: ◦ Assess:  what is the industry seeing? What pesticides are most prominently  used?  ◦ Divide pesticides into meaningful groups or lists  ◦ Identify those that are most commonly seen and most measurable ◦ AOAC International to take a leadership position ◦ Without federal regulation, states would benefit from a panel of relevant  pesticide‐detection methods

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