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Agency seeking input from stakeholders on findings by the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Biological Opinion, which threaten the use of widely used pesticides.
Rita Abi-Ghanem of Bio Huma Netics, a supplier of agricultural liquid fertilizers and specialty products, will serve on the committee’s Science Advisory Board.
A common theme I see in complaints about the government agency is it appears to be taking action more and more based on ideology and public opinion rather than sound science.
If the new rule stands, the American Farm Bureau Federation says the result will be a wave of new regulation or outright prohibitions on routine farming practices and other land uses.
Majority of the 2012 illegal pesticide residues were on produce imported from other countries and contained very low levels (a fraction of a part per million).