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Nature 421, 200 (16 January 2003) | doi:10.1038/421200b
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Pesticide firms ask to use human data to assess safety
Tony Reichhardt
A lawsuit due to reach court in March could settle a contentious stand-off between pesticide manufacturers and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over whether human test data can be used to help set legal limits for pesticides released into the environment.A group of pesticide suppliers and CropLife America, which lobbies for the pesticide industry, are suing the EPA in the District of Columbia Circuit of the US Court of Appeals, after the agency issued a ban on accepting human test data.
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