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The Pesticide That Kills Bugs And Might Help Fight Cancer
2015-08-04 12:06:57| Biotech - Topix.net
Marc Rist, a Bayer AG CropScience employee, examines nematode-infested cucumber, carrot and lettuce roots in a Bayer AG laboratory in Monheim, Germany Nematodes, which gnaw at peanut and cotton roots, first drew Bayer's attention for destructive purposes. Researchers devised an insecticide that starves them of oxygen to wipe out a pest blamed for $100 billion in crop damage every year.
GMO corn increased pesticide use by 300%; agency claims exact opposite to protect biotech industry
2015-07-14 10:53:20| Biotech - Topix.net
The overall percentage of U.S. crop acreage exposed to chemical insecticides is significantly higher than regulatory authorities are claiming, warns a shocking new report released by the Center for Food Safety . Data compiled by scientists from Pennsylvania State University reveals that nearly half of all planted soybean seed and up to 100 percent of all corn seed is now treated with or exposed to insecticides.
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Agribusiness nervous as WHO cancer unit analyzes popular pesticide
2015-05-29 20:31:49| Chemicals - Topix.net
May 29 The World Health Organization is set to examine a widely used pesticide and agribusiness is bracing for bad news, less than three months after the group classified another popular herbicide as "probably" cancer-causing. Twenty-four scientists representing WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer are set to analyze scientific findings regarding links between cancer in humans and the herbicide known as 2,4-D at a June 2-9 meeting in Lyon, France.
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Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee Hears from EPA
2015-05-15 22:17:47| National Farmers Union
By Tom Driscoll, government relations representative, National Farmers Union The Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee (PPDC), a federal advisory committee composed of diverse stakeholders and tasked with providing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) feedback on various pesticide regulatory, policy and program implementation issues, met in the D.C. metro area this week. EPA officials addressed the
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New Zealand receives threat of infant food contamination over pesticide use
2015-03-10 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
In an attempt to put a stop to the practice of using an agricultural poison on pests such as rats and possums, suspected environmental activists have allegedly threatened to contaminate infant food in New Zealand.
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