Pesticides A Toxic Time Bomb in Our Midst

registered for use on a particular crop, the adverse health consequences the EPA is trying to prevent—cholinesterase inhibition ...

OP pesticide. In 2001, the EPA decided to cancel, phase out, or continue under time-limited registrations the crop uses of azinp ...

uses by California and the EPA in 2002 (chlorpyrifos was previously a key ingredient in the pesticide Raid). An analysis of PON- ...

Over time, registered pesticides, or certain uses of registered pesticides, have been banned. These cancellations occur for vari ...

from experts all contributed to the complexity and level of public pesticide fears. Par- ticipants saw the pesticide dilemma as ...

healthier than non-organic food. Nonetheless, consumers have embraced the term as signifying foods that are better for them or t ...

Organic Diets Versus Conventional Diets for Children Two recent studies, one in 2003 and the other in 2005, both involving child ...

one part per billion during the organic diet days to six parts per billion when children resumed eating conventional food.^58 In ...

fruits and vegetables. This health benefit for consumers joins the list of other well- documented reasons to buy organic, includ ...

residue of a synthetic pesticide appears on organic food greater than 5 percent of the applicable European Partners for the Envi ...

product labeled as ‘‘organic,’’ all agricultural ingredients must be organically pro- duced unless the ingredients are not comme ...

Demand Outstrips Supply Growth in the U.S. organic market is being stunted by undersupply, resulting in shelves remaining empty, ...

Farmers, advocates, and ordinary shoppers share the view that the mainstreaming of organics carries both benefits and risks. On ...

Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 was enacted, fought to overturn this rider. They were joined by others who might not have a ...

Brian P. Baker, Charles M. Benbrook, Edward Groth III, and Karen Lutz Benbrook, ‘‘Pesticide Residues in Conventional, IPM-Grown ...

28.Overexposed: Organophosphate Insecticides in Children’s Food(Washington, D.C.: Environmental Working Group, 1998): 1–3. Offi ...

National Research Council, Improving Risk Communication (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1989). Riley E. Dunlap and C ...

C. R. Greene, ‘‘U.S. Organic Emerges in the 1990s: Adoptions of Certified Systems,’’Agricultural Information Bulletin No. 770(W ...

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Four Pesticides in Schools Unfortunately, they don’t envision a helicopter flying a half a mile away put- ting out pesticides. T ...