EPA has little idea and the new law is silent on such questions. After more than 20 years of effort, EPA remains astonishingly ignorant about the health effects of pesticides. But that new fudge factor of 10 was written into the law by aggressive environmentalists, in the hope that such a fudge factor would at least partially compensate for all the other shortcomings of U.S. pesticide law. But it was not to be. Actually, it seems to us, the really sad sight is mainstream environmentalists continuing to tweak regulations in a hopeless attempt to protect our children from pesticides.
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