—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Nov. 20, 1976
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Pesticide makers complain of overregulation
WESTPORT, Conn.
“Ask any fanner what his
biggest problem is today,
and he’ll answer in terms of
increased costs and the
same is true of our in
dustry,” declared H.L.
Straube of Stauffer Chemical
Company in an address
before the 43rd annual
meeting of the National
Agricultural Chemicals
Association (NACA) earlier
this FaU.
Eye in sky warns of freezes
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Environmental satellites
operated by the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)
have the capability of
providing fruit and
vegetable growers with
improved temperature in
formation during periods of
crop-killing freezes, two
parallel studies have shown.
Both efforts - one in
Florida, the other in Texas -
utilized infrared pictures
from NOAA’s National
Environmental Satellite
Service, showing surface
temperatures in and around
fruit and vegetable
producing areas. The in
frared images are provided
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Straube, vice president
and general manager of
Stauffer’s Agricultural
Chemical Division, recently
concluded his one year term
as chairman of the NACA.
“At the very time that the
world is clamoring for more
food production from the
American farmer and the
very time that the farmer is
clamoring for more and
better pesticides that can
every half hour by the
Commerce Department
agency’s GOES-1 satellite,
positioned 22,250 miles
(35,800 kilometers) above
the equator over South
America.
Infrared sensors on the
spacecraft pick up heat
radiation from the ground.
In much the same way as
broadcast television signals
are sent from the TV studio
to the set in your home, the
information is transmitted to
a ground receiving station
and converted into a visual
image, giving scientists an
electronic picture from outer
space.
In the Florida ex
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unage was enhanced by a
computer, permitting the
varying degrees of heat
radiation - an indicator of
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assure him of better yields, a
climate is being developed in
which pesticide research and
development could grind to a
halt,” he continued.
Overregulation by
government agencies is one
of the major problems facing
the industry, he pointed out.
“Excessive regulation has
skyrocketed the costs of
doing busmess to a level that
we never thought possible,”
land surface temperature -
to be, visually displayed as
shades of gray. Tem
peratures between 31 and 33
degrees Fahrenheit - near
the freezing point - were
displayed as white, while
those between 16 and 31 de
-erees were shown in eight
■ shades of gray. Tem
peratures between 33 and 40
degrees were in mid-gray
tone, while those above 40
and below 16 were shown as
black.
The resulting “picture” of
Florida on a typical cold
January night, at an hour
when frost was spread
across the state from Tampa
through Orlando, showed a
white band in that section,
with increasing darkening
shades to the north and a
solid gray area on the
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Straube stated. NACA
studies show that nine years
ago a company had to
evaluate 5,500 different
compounds before one was
found marketable and ac
ceptable within eriir
vironmental standards. In,
1970, the screening process
was increased to an average
of 7,400 compounds; in 1973,
the number was 10,200;
today it’s probably in excess
of 12,000
“But the greatest impact
of regulation on developing
new products has been the
time required between
discovery of a product and
the time it receives label
clearance.” Straube em
phasized. In 1967, according
to NACA studies, this was 60
months, in 1970 it was 77
months, and in 1973, 80
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months. “Today it is
probably close to 100 months,
or over eight years”,
Straube said. As a result,
“excessive cost, mandated
by excessive regulation, is a
real deterrent to future
pesticide development.
“After screening an
average of 12,000 compounds
over eight years at an
average cost of $8 million,
then facing the threat of
rejection by the EPA and
attack by lobby groups, it’s
no wonder that some com
panies in our industry Have
stopped putting dollars into
pesticide research,” he
declared.
The industry is not against
regulation, according to
Straube, but “we must have
a climate of reasonable
regulation.” This has been
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difficult to achieve directly
because of the system by
which the Environmental
Protection Agency conducts
hearings on pesticides.
“These have serious short
comings,” he said.
“Too often, they are just a
series of testimonials read
by experts—and the experts
are never brought into direct
confrontation with each
other,” he explained.
“Cross-examination is not
usually allowed. Instead, the
battle of facts is usually later
aired as a free-for-all in the
mass media. So, instead of
clarifying matters; the
conflicting statements of
experts often add to
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public—and all but paralyze
the decision-making process
among regulators.”
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