Food Quality Protection Act

Food Quality Protection Act of 1996
Other short titles	Minor Use Crop Protection Act of 1995
Long title	An Act to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and for other purposes.
Acronyms (colloquial)	FQPA
Nicknames	Food Quality Protection Act of 1995
Enacted by	the 104th United States Congress
Effective	August 3, 1996
Citations
Public law	104-170
Statutes at Large	110 Stat. 1489
Codification
Acts amended	Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act
Titles amended	7 U.S.C.: Agriculture
U.S.C. sections amended	7 U.S.C. ch. 6 § 136 et seq.; 7 U.S.C. ch. 6 § 136a-1, 7; 7 U.S.C. ch. 6 §§ 136d, 136q, 136w;
Legislative history
	Introduced in the House as H.R. 1627 by Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. (R–VA) on May 12, 1995; Committee consideration by House Agriculture, House Commerce; Passed the House on July 23, 1996 (417-0, Roll call vote 339, via Clerk.House.gov); Passed the Senate on July 24, 1996 (passed unanimous consent); Signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 3, 1996;

The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA), or H.R.1627, was passed unanimously by Congress in 1996 and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 3, 1996.^[1] The FQPA standardized the way the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would manage the use of pesticides and amended the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act. It mandated a health-based standard for pesticides used in foods, provided special protections for babies and infants, streamlined the approval of safe pesticides, established incentives for the creation of safer pesticides, and required that pesticide registrations remain current.^[1]

One of the most prominent sections of the act, the specified protections for babies and infants, was the topic of the National Academy of Sciences' 1993 report, Pesticides in the Diets of Infants & Children. The EPA has cited this report as a catalyst for the creation of the FQPA.^[2]

^ ^a ^b U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "FQPA Background". Retrieved September 28, 2010.
^ Cite error: The named reference EPA PUBLISHED was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[EPA_SITE-1] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "FQPA Background". Retrieved September 28, 2010.

[EPA_PUBLISHED-2] Cite error: The named reference EPA PUBLISHED was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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