Regulating Pesticides

Committee on Prototype Explicit Analyses for Pesticides, Environmental Studies Board, Commission on Natural Resources

• 1 Front Matter; 2 1. Summary and Major Recommendations; 3 2. FIFRA and the RPAR Process; 4 3. Selecting and Scheduling Compounds; 5 4. Risk Assessment; 6 5. Benefit Assessment; 7 6. Evaluation of the Regulatory Options: Weighing the Risks and Benefits; 8 7. Application to Chlorobenzilate; 9 Appendix A: Scientific Limitations to Extrapolating Data on Cancer Risk From Animals to Humans; 10 Appendix B: The Carcinogenic Activity Indicator; 11 Appendix C: Estimates of the Carcinogenicity of Chlorobenzilate; 12 Appendix D: Literature Search on the Biological Aspects of the Use of the Pesticide Dimethoate; 13 Appendix E: Estimates of Acre-Treatments for Chlorobenzilate Substitutes; 14 Appendix F: Construction of Confidence Intervals for Mathematical Combinations of Random Variables; 15 Appendix G: List of Abbreviations Used in This Work