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Issues in Risk/Benefit Evaluation for Pesticide Registration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

C. Robert Taylor
C. Robert Taylor*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University
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The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and its amendments and related legislation currently require that applicants for registration or reregistration of a pesticide demonstrate to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that there is not “any unreasonable risk to man or the environment, taking into account the economic, social, and environmental costs and benefits of use of the pesticide.” Present benefit evaluation guidelines call for consideration of effects on users, nonusers, consumers, GNP, and employment. Minimum guidelines call for a partial budgeting analysis and, if output effects of eliminating the pesticide appear large, a more sophisticated analysis using neoclassical multimarket economic-surplus concepts.

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Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , October 1992 , pp. 71 - 76
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Copyright © 1992 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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