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Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) passed by Congress

FQPA resulted in a revised Paradigm for Risk Assessment in how EPA evaluates pesticides for human safety, including introducing the concepts of aggregate exposure from multiple routes, cumulative risk from pesticides with common mechanism of toxicity, and additional safety factors for assessment of children. It passed unanimously by Congress.
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