H.R. 10145: Scientific Oversight for Unbiased and Neutral Data in Pesticide Research Act

This bill would change how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) evaluates safety data when deciding whether to allow certain pesticide chemical residue levels on food.

What it would require

• When the EPA sets, changes, keeps, or removes a tolerance or exemption for a pesticide residue, it would have to rely on data that is:
  • comprehensive, as the EPA determines, and
  • based on a multigenerational reproductive toxicity study that includes at least four generations of test species.

What the EPA would have to do after enactment

• Within 180 days after the bill becomes law, the EPA Administrator would have to review each existing decision involving pesticide residue tolerances or exemptions and determine whether it is supported by the kind of data the bill requires.
• Within 2 years after enactment, the EPA would have to send Congress a report listing each decision that was reviewed, updated, or otherwise changed because of this new requirement.

Practical effect

In plain terms, the bill would make the EPA use a stricter type of long-term reproductive study before making certain safety decisions about pesticide residues. It would also require the agency to review past decisions and report back to Congress on any changes made because of the new rule.

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