Pesticides A Toxic Time Bomb in Our Midst

could be more understanding and helpful in the products they license for the public to use. After all, they and the government m ...

How Are Farmers Working to Reduce Pesticide Risks? Today, many farmers are using integrated pest management techniques to mini- ...

provide training and information about pesticides used on crops, protective clothing, waiting periods for reentry into treated f ...

management time in planning, pest scouting, and related activities. For this reason, organic management can be preferable if a f ...

introduce the general public to the concept of persistent bioaccumulative toxins— lasting substances that move readily from land ...

the environment. Pesticide residues on food must be safe with a reasonable certainty that no harm will result from aggregate pes ...

Gardeners, farmers, and foresters need to return to tried-and-true pest control methods such as crop rotation, companion plantin ...

Rebecca Clarren, ‘‘Harvesting Poison,’’High Country News(September 29, 2003). U.S. General Accounting Office,Pesticides: Improv ...

U.S. General Accounting Office,Pesticides: Improvements Needed. Op. cit. 11–12. Center for the Economy and the Environment,Eval ...

B. C. Gladen, D. P. Sandler, and S. H. Zahm et al., ‘‘Exposure Opportunities of Families of Farmer Pesticide Applicators,’’Amer ...

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Three Pesticides in Food The destiny of nations depends on the manner in which they feed themselves. —Jean Anthelme Brillat-Sava ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture (FSIS-USDA), and the FDA. It is the responsibility of the EPA to register (that is, approve) and ...

The Pesticide Data Program In the early 1990s surprisingly little was known about the frequency or levels of pesticides in food ...

The PDP’s sampling strategy is statistically reliable and allows for realistic estimates of pesticide residues in the total food ...

research to develop safe alternatives to pesticide use. Consumers’ dietary intake comes from four sources: on-farm pesticide use ...

that regulators evaluate differences between children and adults that may affect pesticide-related health risks. One important d ...

standard for setting tolerances. The standards set must assure ‘‘a reasonable certainty of no harm’’ to children’s health, a new ...

sophisticated enough to detect extremely small amounts of pesticides in food, in some case levels in parts per trillion. Thus, f ...

If the EPA finds that residues of a pesticide used on food may pose a risk greater than the FQPA allows, the act requires a chan ...