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Background: Summary
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Pesticides are clearly a problem
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United States
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International
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No federal oversight
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Little to no state oversight
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What little oversight that does exist, is not necessarily based on
empirical science
Task?
Advisory Panel Goals:
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Assess: what is the industry seeing? What pesticides are most prominently
used?
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Divide pesticides into meaningful groups or lists
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Identify those that are most commonly seen
and
most measurable
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AOAC International to take a leadership position
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Without federal regulation, states would benefit from a panel of relevant
pesticide‐detection methods