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California EPA Formed

This brought the Air Resources Board (ARB), State Water Resources Control Board, and Integrated Waste Management Board (IWMB) under an umbrella agency with the newly created Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment…

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Organic Food Production Act (OFPA)

The Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 (OFPA) (Title 21 of Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, codified at 7 U.S.C. ch. 94, 7 U.S.C. § 6501 et seq.) authorizes a National Organic Program (NOP) to be administered by USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS). The Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 authorizes a National…

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US Pollution Prevention Act (PPA)

The Pollution Prevention Act focused industry, government, and public attention on reducing the amount of pollution through cost-effective changes in production, operation, and raw materials use. Opportunities for source reduction are often not realized because of existing regulations, and the…

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Organic Foods Production Act

Established the National Organic Program (NOP), the Secretary of Agriculture oversees the program for certification of organic production. View Source

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Neonicotinoid insecticides are introduced

The neonics are a class of neuro-active insecticides chemically similar to nicotine. Shell (in the 1980s) and Bayer (in the 1990s) started work on their development. The neonicotinoid family includes acetamiprid, clothianidin, imidacloprid, nitenpyram, nithiazine, thiacloprid and thiamethoxam. Imidacloprid was…

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Publication of the first Exposure Factors Handbook

Codification of inputs for risk assessments, includes detailed statistics on dermal exposure factors, soil/dust ingestion; water consumption human inhalation rates, body weights, food consumption data by several categories. View Source

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