Date: 3/30/99

Time: 3:30

Type: Symposium

Number: 172

FQPA - Impact on processing vegetables

*B. Flood, Del Monte Foods, Rochelle, IL 61068
Contact e-mail: brianflood@earthlink.net

The F.Q.P.A. was an attempt to update F.I.F.R.A. and F.F.D.C.A by the removal of the obsolete Delaney Clause and redefine the pesticide risk to the public with emphasis on children. To meet the legislative mandates, EPA has made major efforts to build and promote communication links to the users, concerned public and registrants to promote transparency in the implementation of F.Q.P.A. The primary negative impacts to processing vegetables have been the elevated awareness of legal residue levels that were previously undetected, the delay in new registrations for minor crops, and the concern for organophosphate, carbamate and B2 carcinogens risk and registration status. The positive impacts has been: increase communications with EPA and the positive emphasis on new replacement insecticides for organophosphate insecticides, the increased processor emphasis to develop new control strategies that do not rely on pesticides, the increased working relationship with consumer and environmental groups to resolve issues of mutual concern. Food processors want public confidence in the food supply; F.Q.P.A. offers that opportunity.

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