I want to thank Ms. May for the amendment. I appreciate the definition for “aggregate exposure”, but I have concerns about the definition for “cumulative effect”. It reads to me to be too narrow. It excludes environmental effects and also narrows the definition to common mechanisms “that target the same tissue”.
This kind of narrow definition has been problematic in the pesticides act and has meant fewer cumulative risk assessments on important topics like neonics, so I hope we won't repeat the same mistakes we've seen in that definition.
I would propose an amendment to the amendment, to take out the definition of “cumulative effects”.