Regulatory agencies accused of stalling agrichemical research
TUCSON, Ariz. - The long
range ability of American
agriculture to produce food
and fiber at economically
acceptable costs is
threatened by government
regulatory trends impacting
bn crop chemical research,
according to Dr. Warren K.
Lowen, director of
agrichemicals research for
the Du Pont Company.
’incentives for industry to
do new product research
have already been affected
by a regulatory pattern of
registration delays and
uncertainties, Lowen told a
meeting of the American
Pbytopathological Society
here on Tuesday.
He cited delays in ob
taining registration from the
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) as a threat to
new product research. The
trend is toward longer
reviews once required data
have been obtained and
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submitted. Lowen gave the
example of two Du Pont
fungicides. In 1956 one was
granted a tolerance for
apples in six months. The
second was granted a
tolerance for apples after a
two-and a-half-year delays
from initial application to
EPA in 1970. More recently,
even longer periods are not
uncommon. < i
Of even greater concern
are the current uncertainties
regarding continued product
registration once it has been
obtained, the' Du Pont
researcher said. “There are
many competitive un
certainties in the market
place which affect the
continued, long-range
commercial future of a
newly registered product.
The threat of producing
deregistration in its early
commercial years further
jeopardizes stockholders’
willingness to invest money
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new agrichemical
products.”
In addition, the costs in
volved with a successful
registration are significant,
he continued. In the 15-year
period from 1956 to 1970,
costs to develop registration
data on two DuPont
fungicides increased nearly
370 per cent. And an ad
ditional 50 per cent increase
will be involved with
registration under EPA’s
new guidelines. “In the end,
these costs must be absorbed
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investors can maintain a
reasonable return on their
Initial cash outlay,” he said.
Lowen said he did not
recommend a return to the
standards of 1956, “but I do
wonder whether the con
sumer is really getting his
money’s worth when he
absorbs increased costs over
the 1970 standards.”
Regulatory trends are
boosting costs of crop
chemicals for the farmer,
Dr. Lowen reported. These
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other manufacturing Dr. Lowen said that ter
regualtions, and increased mination of research on new
production costs involved in “ agrichemicals would have a
more stringent waste negative impact on the
disposal regulations. quality and abundance of
America’s food supply and
“These increased costs on the jobs provided by the
impact on the selling price of agrichemical industry. “I
new products as they reach hope we do not cut off these
the user,” Dr. Lowen said, new products at their source
“And they impact on the by over-zealous regulation of
incentive for the an already highly regulated
agrichemical industry to business,” he conluded.
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