Pesticides A Toxic Time Bomb in Our Midst

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Eight Remedies and Reflections We should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with pois ...

Requiring pesticide manufacturers to supply the state and federal government with toxicity data for their products, including l ...

officials are working to keep pesticides off lawns and gardens.^4 We c ou l d do wo rs e than to emulate their actions. Multiple ...

being promoted, there is still a long way to go until the public knows the hazards of pesticides. While tanker trucks spewing cl ...

transition from chemical to organic farming. As a result, many farmers don’t have the information they need to evaluate whether ...

can highlight the kinds of chemicals we are exposed to as we live out each day of our lives. Of the tens of thousands of chemica ...

Protect Our Children Children must be better protected from both new and existing pesticides that are known or possible toxins. ...

For the sake of their own health and that of their children and families, applicators should want to find ways to reduce their e ...

predictable harm. Continued reliance on pesticides puts citizens at unnecessary risk. The time is ripe for our policy makers to ...

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Selected Bibliography Books Briggs, S. A.Basic Guide to Pesticides: Their Characteristics and Hazards. Silver Spring, MD: Rachel ...

Chipman, H., and P. Kendall et al. ‘‘Consumer Reaction to a Risk/Benefit/Option Mes- sage about Agricultural Chemicals in the Fo ...

Sever, L. E., T. E. Arbuckle, and A. Sweeny. ‘‘Reproductive and Developmental Effects of Occupational Pesticide Exposure: The Ep ...

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Index Acceptable daily intake (ADI), 80 Acidity (pH) of soil: pesticide leaching and, 211 Adsorption in soil: pesticide leaching ...

California Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR): airborne contamination, 195–96; Fresco County incident, 34–35; Pesticide I ...

Endrin, 165 Environment: fate of pesticides in, 7 Environmental Council of the States (ECOS), 41 Environmental Protection Agency ...

Health effects of pesticides: airborne pesticide contamination, 195–96; children, 3–4; drift incidents, 197–98; factors involved ...

Multiresidue methods (MRM): detection of different pesticide residues, 68; FDA testing of food shipments, 77 National Associatio ...