Export of Pesticides

S.2227 was designed primarily to eliminate the export of U.S. manufactured pesticides that had not been registered for domestic use and which were not, under existing legislation, subject to the EPA's registration procedures. Chemicals produced for example, for use on bananas would need a U. S. registration even though virtually no bananas were grown in the United States. It was a judicious decision: "Mr. Bell is sterile. He is a banana worker and, like several thousand other Costa Rican men in the same boat, he blames his trouble on a pesticide, DBCP, used on the plantation . . . and manufactured or used by . . . Dow Chemical, Shell Oil, Standard Fruit and Chiqu

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mical producers in the world was not overlooked. Support from developing country governments comes in the form of an explanation that there was a dependency on U. S. information and other sources such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization for free, available information about pesticides, their health, their environmental effects, and their alternative controls. An organization of liberal farmers, the American Agriculture Movement, offers their support in terms of an heuristic argument that charged it would be unfair for foreign farmers to be allowed to use chemicals which could not be used in the U.S., and that prohibiting the import of products with residues of unregistered pesticides would do much to eliminate this unfair advantage. Opponents simply declare, without challenging the accuracy of the "Circle of Poison" charge, that disallowing the export of the pesticides in question would not stop their use on imported food products because these chemicals would simply be supplied by other countries, and that the net effect would be a loss of jobs in the pesticide industry. Further political opposition, best described as exceptionally vague, proposed that these issues should
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Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page)

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