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Or the decision standard within the Food Quality Protection Act
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that the agency must find a reasonable certainty
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that no harm will result from any pesticide.
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Sounds unfortunate.
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So thinking about whether or not
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it makes sense to give an administrative agency
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that kind of discretion is very important.
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And it depends again on the technical nature of the problem.
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Another key question is risk averaging.
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If you have lousy data, data that is collected maybe
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with very small sample sizes so that you have no understanding
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of demographic variability and exposure or in the complex