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herbicides, which account for approximately 50% of all pesticide use globally. Most pesticides are used as plant protection products (also known as crop...
A pesticide poisoning occurs when pesticides, chemicals intended to control a pest, affect non-target organisms such as humans, wildlife, plants, or bees...- Pesticide residue refers to the pesticides that may remain on or in food, after they are applied to food crops. The maximum allowable levels of these residues...
- Restricted use pesticides (RUP) are pesticides not available to the general public in the United States. Fulfilling its pesticide regulation responsibilities...
environmental effects of pesticides describe the broad series of consequences of using pesticides. The unintended consequences of pesticides is one of the main...
Pesticide resistance describes the decreased susceptibility of a pest population to a pesticide that was previously effective at controlling the pest...- Under United States law, pesticide misuse is considered to be the use of a pesticide in a way that violates laws regulating their use or endangers humans...
- Silent Spring (category Pesticides)the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate use of a type of pesticide used by soldiers during WW2. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading...
- Pesticide degradation is the process by which a pesticide is transformed into a benign substance that is environmentally compatible with the site to which...
System for Occupational Risks (SENSOR)-Pesticides is a U.S. state-based surveillance program that monitors pesticide-related illness and injury. It is administered...
Integrated pest management (redirect from Green pesticide)measures that discourage the development of pest populations and keep pesticides and other interventions to levels that are economically justified and...
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (redirect from Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act)(FIFRA) is a United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment. It...- Suicide methods (section Pesticide)pattern varying in different countries. These are hanging, poisoning by pesticides, and firearms. Some suicides may be preventable by removing the means...
- of the pesticides is a paradox that states that applying pesticide to a pest may end up increasing the abundance of the pest if the pesticide upsets natural...
Toxicity class (redirect from General Use Pesticide)Toxicity class refers to a classification system for pesticides that has been created by a national or international government-related or -sponsored organization...
DDT (redirect from History of DDT)promoted by government and industry for use as an agricultural and household pesticide, there were also concerns about its use from the beginning. Opposition...- Pesticide regulation in the United States is primarily a responsibility of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In America, it was not till the...
Carbaryl (redirect from Sevendust (pesticide))purchased Aventis CropScience in 2002, a company that included Union Carbide pesticide operations. Carbaryl was the third-most-used insecticide in the United...
companies, it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy, which led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides. It also inspired a grassroots environmental...
cotton on sugar lands with disastrous results. They lacked the seeds, pesticides, and technical skills to grow cotton. Jobless farm workers flocked to...
- Act's text and legislative history demonstrate a clearly manifest congressional intent to prohibit any regulation of pesticides by local governmental units
- synthetic pesticides, and within a decade, most uses of DDT had been prohibited. Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2015) Rachel
- 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, a book about the dangers of pesticide overuse. Carson’s views were shared environmentally-focused non-governmental