Comment submitted by Friends and Advocates for Children, Teachers and Schools

The rule exempting food packaging, packaging ingredients, and food itself containing those ingredients treated with pesticides, from regulation under FFDCA is very, very harmful to our nations health and most importantly to our childrens' health. There has been a horrific rise in childhood illness in the last 20 years across the board from mental illnesses in children to life-long, chronic diseases like autism, ADHD, asthma, obesity, diabetes, epilepsy, cancer, and the list goes on and on. Scientists are pointing to synthetic chemicals as like culprits. Pesticides are the worst type of synthetic chemical as they are all classified as poisons. To allow poisons in our food system to be unregulated is absolutely unconscionable.