Latin American banana growers have begun to use it as an environmentally safe pesticide.
Many kill themselves by consuming the very pesticide they went into debt to purchase.
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According to Joan Clayburgh of Californians for Pesticide Reform, nontoxic pest-control options are often overlooked.
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American tea-meisters now travel the world seeking the best-nurtured, hand-harvested, pesticide-free leaves of the tea plant.
But Dr Whitehorn found that even non-lethal doses of pesticide were bad for bees.
In-home pesticide use has been linked to everything from lung disorders to Parkinson's disease.
One group of pesticide byproducts was associated with a substantially increased risk of ADHD.
She suspects such studies would show an even stronger link between pesticide byproducts and ADHD.
She wrote how a DDT-like pesticide affected the uterus by blocking powerful pituitary hormones.
At the moment, large amounts of pesticide are sprayed to accomplish this task in rice fields.
Scientists believe the controversial pesticide DDT is responsible for premature puberty in girls in developing countries.
There are, for example, 14 pieces of legislation governing pesticide use, under the control of several ministries.
On chemical treatments, for 1997, pesticide treatment was about the same for pest resistant and conventional corn.
According to the Argentine Health Ministry, it contained a Chinese carbonate-based pesticide commonly used on grain fields.
The pesticide was banned and the birds' numbers began to increase again as they became a protected species.
There are also potentially millions of people at risk of pesticide poisoning in their tap water.
In 1984, a gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant near Bhopal, India, killed nearly 4, 500 people.
Some of the pesticide turned out to have been only a few weeks old when it was buried.
"I would hope that this study raises awareness as to the risk associated with pesticide exposure, " Bouchard says.
Kemery recommended that parents try other pest-control tactics before resorting to pesticide use in the home or garden.
Organic food companies may think twice before touting the benefits of going pesticide-free lest Monsanto take them to court.
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It seems like a minor issue compared with tailpipe emissions or pesticide exposure.
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Between 1996 and 2009, for example, 866 million pounds less of pesticide active ingredients were sprayed on crops globally.
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He is especially concerned about the toxic effects of the pesticide methyl bromide.
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Among the many possible contributing factors that the report cited are habitat loss, pesticide use, climate change, and introduced pathogens.
Lynn Goldman, the EPA's chief pesticide regulator during the Clinton administration, defended and publicly misrepresented her agency's policies toward biotechnology.
The pesticide alarmism was debunked in July by an independent, peer-reviewed study by researchers at the University of California Davis.
Another significant requirement of the bill is a mandatory 72-hour notice to all parents and school staff before pesticide use.
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Environmental opposition to this pesticide is still fierce, and companies that make weak alternatives to DDT fan this fanatical opposition.
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