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FEES FOR PROCESSING PESTICIDE EVALUATIONS IN FOOD AND FEED INCREASED
Release Date: 03/14/2002
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FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2002
FEES FOR PROCESSING PESTICIDE EVALUATIONS IN FOOD AND FEED INCREASED
David Deegan 202-564-7839 / [email protected]
David Deegan 202-564-7839 / [email protected]
EPA has increased the fees charged to industry for processing requests to establish new legal residue levels in food and feed. As part of the Agency’s evaluation of pesticides, EPA does a careful assessment of pesticide residues that may potentially remain on foods, and the Agency establishes maximum allowable levels for these residues (called “tolerances”) that are protective of human health. Under the new fee scale, which takes effect on April 12, and was announced in the Federal Register on March 13, the basic fee for establishing a new tolerance will be $77,625, an increase of approximately 13 percent. The current increase in these fees reflects federal civilian pay increases in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore, Md. metropolitan area over the past three years, during which time tolerance processing fees were not increased. These fee increases do not reflect other requirements mandated by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996, which directed the Agency to collect tolerance fees that, in the aggregate, cover all costs associated with processing tolerance actions.
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