The report found that 45 percent of the nation's food supply was not subject to regulation under the Delaney clause.

The most significant thing about the Delaney Clause is how little it matters.

The move would benefit pesticide manufacturers, who have long opposed the law, known as the Delaney clause.

He said that although the risk is one in 10 million or lower, application of the Delaney Clause has kept the pesticide off the market.

"But that may be the price we pay for getting what we want, which is a change in the Delaney Clause," he said.

But a 1958 amendment, the Delaney Clause, has caused the greatest controversy.

Updating the Delaney clause has been a subject of Congressional debate since about 1980.

There is general agreement that the Delaney Clause needs either revision or repeal.

He also said that the case was "not about two colors, but about the Delaney Clause."

Some form of legislation reducing regulations is likely to pass, and the Delaney Clause will be weakened, at the very least.