Environmental Protection Agency pesticide additives regulations

There is pressure to reduce or even eliminate the use of cadmium. The element is included in a draft list of persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic pollutants prepared by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1999. In many countries the cadmium contents of air, water, food additives, paints and pesticides are regulated. 

In fact, when President Richard Nixon s Advisory Council on Executive Organization recommended a structure for a new "Environmental Protection Administration" in 1970, it focused almost entirely on the organizational structure and function needed for pollution control and pesticide regulation [6]. The mission of the soon-to-be Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had no part in evaluating or regulating most of the 62,000 chemicals then in commerce, either as raw materials or in products other than pesticides, drugs, or food additives. 

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