AAP News Vol. 15 No. 3 March 1999, p. 30
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Pediatricians urged to support tougher new food safety law

Cynthia F. Bearer M.D., Ph.D.

The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA), which amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act and the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, was passed unanimously by Congress in 1996. The amendment was motivated in part by a National Academy of Sciences report (Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children), which found that the current regulatory process of pesticides in food did not account for children's differing exposures and vulnerabilities. This legislation made some major changes in how pesticides are regulated:

• The Delaney Clause, which forbids any carcinogens in processed food, was replaced by "reasonable certainty of no harm" for toxicants in any food (whether processed or not).