Environmental Protection Agency regulatory authority

Analytical chemistry is a critical component of worker safety, re-entry, and other related studies intended to assess the risk to humans during and subsequent to pesticide applications. The analytical aspect takes on added significance when such studies are intended for submission to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and/or other regulatory authorities and are thus required to be conducted according to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Standards, or their equivalent. This presentation will address test, control, and reference substance characterization, use-dilution (tank mix) verification, and specimen (exposure matrix sample) analyses from the perspective of GLP Standards requirements. 

EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Federal agency with environmental protection regulatory and enforcement authority. 

Library resources are listed alphabetically by state. Libraries include those of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, state environmental and other regulatory agencies, universities, and other organizations that offer information about environmental protection, hazardous wastes, and hazardous materials. Information from Access EPA (1992) was verified by the authors in August 1993. 

Each year over a thousand new chemical substances are manufactured or imported in the United States. While some of these substances will replace other more toxic substances, each new substance has the potential to increase the levels of pollution in our air, water and land. Even substances that are themselves innocuous may be manufactured using highly toxic feedstocks or may result in significant generation of hazardous waste. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has regulatory authority over new chemical substances as well as the mandate to champion pollution prevention in all aspects of our environment. 

Similar to the Final Safety Analysis Report in the U.S., a frmdamental feature of the British regulatory system is the requirement for each licensee to demonstrate the safety of its proposed operation in a document known as the safety case. The Nil also enforces safety and health regulations related to non-nuclear hazards at licensed sites. This role is perhaps comparable with those of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state safety and health authorities. The relationship between the U.K. licensees and the safety authorities is generally less antagonistic than that found in the U.S. The majority of discrepancies found by Nil inspectors are addressed at the individual... 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1985. Costs and Benefits of Reducing Lead in Gasoline. Final Regulatory Irrqract Analysis. (Schwartz, L, principal author). Report No. EPA-230-05-85-006. Office of Policy Analysis, Washington, EX3. 

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