Guest Post: The inefficient EPA

A reader writes in:

The EPA is responsible for various things including assessing new hazardous substances for import or manufacture for New Zealand. The majority of these are agrichemicals. There has been fairly vocal criticism of them from companies and farmers about their slow processing, for a few years now. Notably, the legislation they operate under (The Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act) has barely changed since over the last 15 years. The only substantive changes are...