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of pesticide management and effects." These reports sought to place 

 in proper perspective the issues that Miss Carson's book had raised, to 

 propose a course of national regulatory action, and to identify areas in 

 which further scientific research was urgently needed to improve pesti- 

 cide management. 



Also during 1962 and 1963, the President's Science Advisory Com- 

 mittee was asked by the President to examine the problem ; it prepared 

 a substantial report on the subject, which was issued May 15, 1963.''^ 

 Subsequently, a vigorous effort, was made by the staff of the House 

 Appro])riations Committee to restore perspective to the controversy.^' 

 A partial list of further contacts, extracted from the report, includes 

 the following : 



To obtain information concerning the use of cbemical and noncliemiool means 

 of pest control, the staff interviewed officials of the Entomology Research Divi- 

 sion, the Pesticides Regulation Division, and the Plant Pest Control Division of 

 the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture 

 (USDA). In addition, officials of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation 

 Service, the Cooperative State Research Service, and the Forest Service of 

 USDA, including the Division of Forest Pest Control and the Division of Forest 

 Protection Research, were interviewed with respect to the use of pesticides. 



Officials of the Bureau of Regulatory Compliance, the Bureau of Scientific 

 Research, and the Bureau of Scientific Standards and Evaluation of the Food 

 and Drug Administration (FDA), of the Department of Health, Education, and 

 Welfare (HEW), were interviewed concerning the registration and establish- 

 ment of tolerances and the research activities of FDA. 



Officials of the Public Health Service (PHS) of HEW, Washington, D.C., 

 including the Bureau of States Services and the Water Supply and Pollution 

 Control Division, were also interviewed. 



Officials of the U.S. Department of the Interior (USDI) were interviewed con- 

 cerning USDI's pesticide programs and research. 



In addition, a member of the panel on the use of pesticides of the President's 

 Science Advisory Committee, members of the current Pesticide Residues Com- 

 mittee of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, and mem- 

 bers of the staff of the President's Office of Science and Technology were inter- 

 viewed. 



The staff visited and discus.sed operations of 16 laboratories of ARS. 



The staff visited five of the 18 district offices of FDA and di.«cussed matters 

 relevant to pesticides and the various incidents inve.stigated by the staff. 



The staff vi.sited two district offices of PHS ; the research facilities of the 

 Communicable Disease Center, at Atlanta, Ga., and Wenatchee, Wash. ; the Na- 

 tional Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dis- 

 ea.ses of the National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, Md. ; and the Taft Sanitary 

 Engineering Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



The staff observed the research facilities and operation.s of the USDI at Den- 

 ver, Colo. ; Gulf Breeze. Fla. : and Laurel, Md. ; and discussed with officials of 

 these laboratories the USDI programs being conducted to ascertain the effects 

 that pesticide residues have had on fish and other wildlife. 



*^ A sympnsixira on pest control and wildlife relationships. By Committee on Pest Control 

 and wildlife Rel.ntionships. Mar. 10. 1961, 25 pp. (pnblication 897) ; Pest Control 

 and Wildlife Relationships. Pt. 1 : Evaluation of Pesticide-Wildlife Problems (1962). 2S pp. 

 (publication 920-A) : pt. 2 : Policy and Procedures for Pest Control (1962) 5.3 pp. (publica- 

 tion 920-B) : and pt. .3: Research Need.s (196."',). 28 pp. (publication 920-C). 



48 "Use of Pesticides." A report of the President's Science Advisory Committee. The 

 White House. May 15. 1963. op. clt. 



*"! "Effects, Uses, Control, and Research of Agricultural Pesticides." (A report by the 

 surveys and Investisratlons staff). Apr. 19, 1965. Reproduced In: U.S. Conjrress. House. 

 Committee on Appropriations. Department of Aprlculture Appropriations for 1966. Hear- 

 ings before a subcommittee of the * * * pt. 1. 89th Cong., 1st sess. (Washington, U.S.. 

 Government Printing Office, 1966), p. 165. This Inquiry was begun In 1964. The staff 

 intervif'wed more than 185 outstanding scientists and 2.3 physicians, including offlcinLs of 

 the American Medical Association and university medical school faculties, having knowledge 

 of tiie properties, the uses, and the known and potential benefits and hazards of the use 

 of pesticides. Included were biochemists, biologists, chemists, entomologists, nutritionist^^, 

 plant pathologists, toxicologlsts, zoologists, and a geneticist, as well as experts in agri- 

 culture, conservation, and public health. 



