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The management of regulatory affairs by pesticide companies is now very different to that of thirty years ago. Talk to a manager of a pesticide company’s ‘regulatory affairs’ department today and you will learn that, until at least the 1970s, there was probably no such department. In the UK until the mid-1980s, there were no statutory regulations for pesticide approval. Instead, a voluntary scheme operated on the principle that only pesticides approved by government experts would be supplied. Meanwhile, obtaining approval was given a low priority by companies, typically ‘tacked-on’ at the end of the innovation process and overseen by ex-field trials officers towards the end of their careers. The scheme was sufficiently informal and the network of professional contacts so small that, in the words of one manager, it was possible to ‘take out the MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture) representative for a couple of beers and everything would be all right’
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Rothstein, H., Irwin, A. (2002). Reconstructing the Local and the Global: Europeanisation, Regulation and Changing Knowledge Relations. In: Smith, H.L. (eds) The Regulation of Science and Technology. Studies in Regulation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554528_9
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