It was a done deal.(Brief Article)

Excuse my naivete with the United States Environmental Protection Agency's pesticide reassessment process. I actually thought that when the Food Quality Protection Act was passed in 1996, the EPA and the specialty pesticides industry would sit down together and figure out how to reasonably estimate exposures of pesticides for children and adults. I thought that many professional users would step forward and tell the Agency just how valuable these chemical products are for landscape management.

Silly me, I thought that the reams and reams of test data and the millions of research dollars spent by the manufacturers to meet the EPA's product registration scrutiny would …