date:Apr 25, 2014
l harvest. While its officially regulated as a pesticide, DPA functions as a fungicide and growth regulator.
According to an analysis prepared by EWG Senior Scientist Sonya Lunder, EPA has not examined DPAs health and safety aspects since 1998, although the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act requires the agency to do so every 15 years.
She said the organizations major health and safety concern with DPA relates to nitrosamines, a family of chemicals known to cause cancer.
People who eat nitrosam