1. Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 By: Taylor Hunner Pd. #2
-On July 24, 1996, the child protective bill was passed by the Senate, and President Clinton signed the FQPA into law on August 3, 1996
What did it do?/It’s Function
-mandates a single, health-based standard for all pesticides in all foods;
-provides special protections for infants and children;
-expends approval of safer pesticides;
-creates incentives for the development and maintenance of effective crop protection tools for American farmers; and
-requires periodic re-evaluation of pesticide registrations and tolerances to ensure that the scientific data supporting pesticide registrations will remain up to date in the future.

2. -Put a regulation on what type of pesticides can be used, and who should be allowed to eat the food that pesticides are used on.
This Act is regulated at a national level by the Environmental Protection Agency.
-Also enacted changes to the Federal
Insecticide, fungicide, and Rodenticide
Act (FIFRA), as well as the Federal Food,
Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA).