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1. What is the EPA's role in pesticide use? What are some of their regulations?

2. Discuss pest management methods and their effect on the environment.

3. Briefly research what DDT was used for, why farmers considered it to be a "miracle chemical" and why it was later banned.

4. Explain what integrated pest management is and why it was created.

5. How does the government regulate pesticide use?

6. What effects do pesticides have on our health? How can you protect yourself from exposure?

7. Explain how Silent Spring was influential in raising awareness of the harmful effects of pesticides.

8. Discuss some alternatives to using pesticides as well as natural pesticides. Provide specific examples to support your answer.

9. Do some research to find out what types of common household products contain pesticides. Look around your house to see if you have any of these products. Write about your findings.

10. In your opinion, do you believe that the use of pesticides on foods that we consume has contributed to the increased number of cancer cases today? Support your answer.

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Running Head: PESTICIDE

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PESTICIDE

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Pesticide
The role of EPA in pesticide use
Environmental protection agency (EPA) is a program that regulates the distribution of the
pesticide and its application to authorized individuals or companies under Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act in the United States. It evaluates information provided by the
pesticide companies on toxicant reduce chemistry and environmental harm; then it further
determines whether the pesticide should be registered or cause ecological effect and discard it.
The program is, therefore, a licensing program that gives authority to pesticide users and seller
that ensures FIFRA act is reached (Beyer, 2000). On the regulation of the pesticides, EPA, under
FIFRA have provided the where one or individual must register the production of the pesticides,
with all the registered companies to re-register themselves following the statured and act
produced by the FIFRA act.
Pest management methods and their effect on the environment
According to Coll & Wajnberg, (2017) on the report of the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organizatio, Pest has become the major contributor of food uncertainty globally.
Therefore there is some major method that has been brought up to solve the issue, although,
these management methods have side effects on the environment. Some of these methods
include; integrated pest management method (IPM),

this method has been employed and

accepted worldwide to manage pest population since 1992 agreement in Brazil by united nation
conference on the environment. The technique is a single p...


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