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Epa's Response to Resistance Management and Herbicide-Tolerant Crop Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Diana M. Horne
Diana M. Horne*
Affiliation:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs, Washington, DC 20460
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Abstract

The regulation of transgenic plants is at the very early stages of dialog between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Herbicide resistance is discussed in the broader terms of resistance management and of the cooperative efforts underway involving governments, industry, academia, and the environmental community on an international level. A new body, the International Organization for Resistant Pest Management (IOPRM) was formed to implement pesticide resistance management programs worldwide. The research base for integrated pest management programs which form the context for pesticide resistance management programs is in need of expansion. Public and private efforts to expand this base converge in an ambitious collaborative program between the U.S. EPA and USDA entitled the National Integrated Pest Management Forum. Finally, the potential role of EPA in the regulation of resistance management is discussed.

Keywords

Biotechnologyherbicide resistanceintegrated pest managementselective herbicide
Type
Symposium
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , September 1992 , pp. 657 - 661
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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References

3 Abbreviations: EPA, Environmental Protection Agency; FDA, Food and Drug Administration; USDA, U.S. Department of Agriculture; FIFRA, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act; FFDCA, Federal Food, Drug an Cosmetic Act; USDA/APHIS, U.S. Department of Agriculture/Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; HTC, herbicide-tolerant crop; IPM, integrated pest management; IOPRM, The International Organization for Resistant Pest Management; NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization; WHO, World Health Organization; OMB, Office of Management and Budget.Google Scholar

4 Regulating Pesticides in Food: The Delaney Paradox, Washington, DC, National Academy Press, 1987.Google Scholar