Food Quality Protection Act of
1996 (FQPA)
By: Alyssa Hall and Aaron Richter
Basics…
Name: Food Quality Protection Act
Draft Year: 1995
Amendment Years: 1999
International or National: National
Information…
Issues Affected: Addressing food safety for
human health.
Functions: Improving health standards for
food inventory, and protects the safety of
pesticides being used on food.
Regulation and Enforcement…
The group responsible for the Food
Quality Protection Act was the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The FQPA mass produced the way the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
would manage the use of pesticides.