Organic foods contain lower levels of pesticide residues than conventionally grown foods and they are grown without the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. While Carson's research was a good start to raising our collective awareness of pesticide use and its effects on human and environmental well-being, her work is far from done. Despite conscientious efforts by those who apply pesticides according to federal requirements, the chemicals contaminate water, air and our bodies. She...

People using pesticides should always follow the label instructions when applying any pesticide, including herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides. Even when these herbicides are applied in the cool of the morning, toxic chemical vapors will lift off later on a hot day and can drift to neighboring fields. These chemicals produce vapor drifts that are prone to injure neighboring crops, trees and landscape plants at high temperatures. Many perennial plant species are vulnerable to weed...

Sable Chemicals needs US$40 million for major refurbishment of its electrolysis plant over the next three years to guarantee the continued manufacture of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, the company's general manager Mr John Mhunduru said in Harare on Tuesday. Sable Chemicals needs US$40 million for major refurbishment of its electrolysis plant over the next three years to guarantee the continued manufacture of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, the company's general manager Mr John Mhunduru said in...

The research work-cum-extension service is part of a comprehensive assessment being done by the National Institute for Health (NIH) of the University of the Philippines (UP) in Manila among vegetable and cut-flower farmers in the Benguet towns of La Trinidad, Itogon, Atok, Mankayan, Kapangan and Buguias. Benguet farmers exposed to pesticides have submitted to physical, medical and blood examination to determine the level of pesticide toxicity in their blood and how it affects their health....

Published May 23, 2007 11:09 am - For pets, spring and summer can mean increased interaction with pesticides, chemicals and other household items that can be harmful. For the family pet, however, spring and summer can mean increased interaction with pesticides, chemicals and other household items that can be potentially harmful. Depending on the amount ingested, the chemicals can rapidly cause vomiting, diarrhea, breathing problems, muscle weakness, seizures and even coma or death. Most...

Little thingies in the whatsit has our columnist pondering the cocktail of chemicals he ingests daily. Where did they come from? my wife asked, in what I thought was an unfairly accusatory tone, as though I made it a practice to smuggle in noxious insects to sow among the pulses. Little thingies in the whatsit has our columnist pondering the cocktail of chemicals he ingests daily. Now, my wife and I, like all married couples, employ a form of telegraphic indeed, virtually telepathic...