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Pesticide Related Articles and Reports

 

10 Things Your Exterminator Won't Tell You

100 percent of people carry at least 1 type of pesticide

A morphometric and histological study of the kidney of mice after dermal application of cypermethrin

Accidental boric acid poisoning following the ingestion of  household pesticide.

Activists say kids not protected from pesticides

Activity of esterases and effect of genetic polymorphism in workers exposed to organophosphorus pesticides

Acute illnesses associated with pesticide exposure at schools.

Acute pesticide poisoning in the U.S. retail industry, 1998-2004

Acute pesticide-related illness among emergency responders, 1993-2002.

Acute pesticide-related illnesses among working youths, 1988-1999

Africa: FAO Encourages Early Withdrawal of Highly Toxic Pesticides

Agent Orange: A View From Vietnam An Analysis Of The Chemical Herbicide And Its Health Effects

All Pregnant Women Tested Had At Least One Kind Of Pesticide In Their Placenta,  According To Researcher

Ameliorating the Developmental Neurotoxicity of Chlorpyrifos: A Mechanisms-Based Approach in PC12 Cells

An intervention to reduce residential insecticide exposure during pregnancy among an inner-city cohort

Antigen Sensitization Influences Organophosphorus Pesticide–Induced Airway Hyperreactivity

Assessing transferable residues from intermittent exposure to flea control collars containing the organophosphate insecticide chlorpyrifos.

Association Between Serum Concentrations of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Insulin Resistance Among Nondiabetic Adults

Atopy, exposure to pesticides and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Autism Linked To Pesticide Exposure

Axonal degeneration and neuropathy target esterase [organophosphate-induced delayed neuropathy]

BANS ON LAWN-CARE CHEMICALS Bylaws to curtail pesticide use provoke pitched battles

Beneficial Effects of N-Acetylcysteine against Organophosphate Toxicity in Mice

Better than eating worms?  Children's dietary exposure to OP pesticides

Beware of pesticides, pregnant women warned

Big retailers to pull pesticides off shelves

Biochemical effects of chlorpyrifos and deltamethrin on altered antioxidative defense mechanisms and lipid peroxidation in rat liver.

Biocontrol Network

Biological monitoring of pyrethroid exposure of pest control workers in Japan

Brain tumors and exposure to pesticides: a case-control study in southwestern France

Brandon residents launch petition against malathion use

Categorized List of Inert (other) Pesticide Ingredients

Cats killed by Permethrin flea treatment

Child-Specific Reference Dose (chRD) for Chlorpyrifos for Use in Assessing Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites.

Chlorpyrifos interferes with salmon brains and harms their ability to feed

Chlorpyrifos-methyl; Product Cancellation Order

Christmas trees sprayed with Roundup

Chronic, Intermittent Exposure to Chlorpyrifos in Rats: Protracted Effects on Axonal Transport, Neurotrophin Receptors, Cholinergic Markers, and Information Processing

Clinical and electrophysiological aspects of acute organophosphate intoxication.

Combining modeling with biomonitoring data reveals pesticide exposure routes in pregnant Latina women in the Salinas Valley (Calif.).

Common Herbicide Disrupts Human Hormone Activity In Cell Studies

Common Insecticide Linked to Child Development Problems

Common Weedkiller May Cause Hormonal Problems

Complete inhibition of spontaneous activity in neuronal networks in vitro by deltamethrin and permethrin.

Contemporary-use pesticides in personal air samples during pregnancy and blood samples at delivery among urban minority mothers and newborns

Council signs off on spraying for mosquitoes

Critical Windows of Exposure to Household Pesticides and Risk of Childhood Leukemia

DDT-related chemical linked to testicular cancer

Danville students sell homemade pesticides

Decline in pesticide poisonings in the United States from 1995 to 2004.

Deltamethrin induces mitochondrial membrane permeability

Depression and pesticide exposures in female spouses of licensed pesticide applicators in the agricultural health study cohort.

Developmental diazinon neurotoxicity in rats: Later effects on emotional response

Diazinon, chlorpyrifos and parathion are metabolised by multiple cytochromes P450 in human liver

Dietary Intake and Its Contribution to Longitudinal Organophosphorus Pesticide Exposure in Urban/Suburban Children

Differential protein adduction by seven OP pesticides /Mechanisms OP Intox

Effects of acute and repeated oral exposure to the organophosphate insecticide chlorpyrifos on open-field activity in chicks.

Effects of occupational pesticide exposure on children applying pesticides.

Effects of pyrethroid insecticides on gap junctional intercellular communications in Balb/c3T3 cells by dye-transfer assay

Efficacy of the bone injection gun in the treatment of organophosphate poisoning

EPA fines garden store for selling cancelled pesticide product

EPA orders Scotts to stop selling certain pesticides

EU considers much tougher pesticide rules

Europe's children "paying the price" for current pesticide use

Evaluation of genetic damage in a Brazilian population occupationally exposed to pesticides and its correlation with polymorphisms in metabolizing genes.

Every rose has its thorn: pesticides used to grow the Valentine's favorites are making people sick

Expert urges apple growers to use pesticide alternatives now

Exposure of young children working on Mexican tobacco plantations to organophosphorous and carbamic pesticides, indicated by cholinesterase depression

Exposure to pesticides and time to pregnancy among female greenhouse workers

Exposure to Pesticides Damages the Brain and the Nervous

Federal Register and Pesticide Registration Notices on Inert (other) Pesticide Ingredients

Finally, a hint of progress on pesticides

Foetal and adult human CYP3A isoforms in the bioactivation of organophosphorothionate insecticides

For Chemical Pesticide Makers, A Fly in the (Organic) Ointment

France scraps licenses for 1,500 pesticides

Frog researcher lectures Mayo Clinic docs on widely used weed-killer

Gender differences in the effects of organochlorines, mercury, and lead on thyroid hormone levels in lakeside communities of Quebec (Canada).

Greenpeace calls for ban on 327 heavily toxic pesticides

Greenpeace publishes pesticides industry ranking

Group files suit over pesticide use

Groups find elevated levels of potent pesticide in Tulare County area

Guidance for Supporting the Inert Ingredients Subject to the Revocation Notice of 8/9/2006

GYPSY MOTH: Infestation could get worse; Maryland looking for new  ways to fight it

Handling Pesticides Associated With Greater Asthma Risk In Farm Women

Harmful pesticides found in everyday food products

Headache caused by handling the pesticide Antracol Combi WP 76: A case report.

Health effects of common home, lawn, and garden pesticides

Hearing Loss Among Licensed Pesticide Applicators in the Agricultural Health Study.

Household Exposure to Pesticides and Risk of Childhood Hematopoietic Malignancies: The ESCALE Study (SFCE)

Household pesticides and risk of pediatric brain tumors.

How do you reduce use of pesty pesticides? EU lawmakers have an idea

Immunotoxicity of one trichothecene

Immunotoxicological study of one of the most common over-the-counter pyrethroid insecticide products in egypt

Impaired mitochondrial energy metabolism and neuronal apoptotic cell death after chronic dichlorvos (OP) exposure in rat brain

Impaired Reproductive Development in Sons of Women Occupationally Exposed to Pesticides during Pregnancy

In Utero Exposure to Background Concentrations of DDT and Cognitive Functioning among Preschoolers

In vitro metabolism and interactions of pyridostigmine bromide, N,N- diethyl-m-toluamide, and permethrin in human plasma and liver microsomal enzymes

In Utero p,p´-DDE Exposure and Infant Neurodevelopment: A Perinatal Cohort in Mexico

Increased concentrations of certain persistent organic pollutants in subjects with self-reported electromagnetic hypersensitivity

Industry Buzz The Year of Emotionally Driven Pesticide Issues

Inert Ingredients in Pesticide Products - About Tolerance Reassessment

Integrated pest management in an urban community: a successful partnership for prevention

Intermediate syndrome following acute organophosphate poisoning: correlation with initial serum levels of muscle enzymes*.

Intermediate syndrome following organophosphate insecticide poisoning

Joint Inerts Task Force (JITF) Formed to Support Revoked Inert Ingredients

Landscaper advises you to reconsider your killer lawn

Levels, tissue distribution, and age-related accumulation of synthetic musk fragrances in Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis): comparison to organochlorines.

Lindane pesticide banned by the EPA, but still allowed by FDA in children's products

Linkage of the California Pesticide Use Reporting Database with Spatial Land Use Data for Exposure Assessment

Long-term neurobehavioral effects of mild poisonings with organophosphate and n-methyl carbamate pesticides among banana workers.

Long-term Pesticide Exposure May Increase Risk of Diabetes

Long-term study tracks health impact of pesticide use

Low level of exposure to pesticides leads to lung dysfunction in occupationally exposed subjects.

Malaria: Effective Insecticide-repellent Synergy Against Mosquito Vectors

Maternal Residence Near Agricultural Pesticide Applications and Autism Spectrum Disorders among Children in the California Central Valley

Medics in Panama see side effects of pesticide use

Merging Models and Biomonitoring Data to Characterize Sources and Pathways of Human Exposure to Organophosphorous Pesticides in the Salinas Valley of California

Monsanto completes regulatory process for next generation soy

MONSANTO PATENTS ASSERTED AGAINST AMERICAN FARMERS REJECTED BY PATENT OFFICE:

MonSATAN'S Round Up is not SAFE

More "herbicide-ready" plants

Multiple exposure to pesticides and impacts on health: a cross- section study of 102 rural workers, Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Nanoparticles to fight pesticide residues

National Pesticide Information Network

Neighbors: Sprayed Yard a ‘Toxic Dump’ County is asked to help

Neonatal exposure to low doses of diazinon: long-term effects on neural cell development and acetylcholine systems.

Neurotoxic disorders of organophosphorus compounds and their managements

Neurotoxicity of pesticides

Neurotoxicity of pesticides: a brief review

New Mechanism of Organophosphorus Pesticide-induced Immunotoxicity

New York IPM Guidelines

News in Science - Nanopesticides "need specific regulation"

Noncholinesterase Effects Induced by Organophosphate Pesticides and their Relationship to Cognitive Processes: Implication for the Action of Acylpeptide Hydrolase

NRDC Sues EPA for Failing to Ban Two Highly Toxic Pesticides

Nursing care for organophosphate poisoning

Officials defend spraying:  Moth pheromone is non-toxic, they say

One Pesticide Classified as Unsafe, Hundreds More to Go

Organic Diets Significantly Lower Children's Dietary Exposure to Organophosphorus Pesticides

Organochlorine pesticides and chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents in the blood of chemically sensitive patients

Organochlorine pesticides in ambient air in Durban, South Africa.

Organochlorine pesticides in particulate matter of Beijing, China.

Organochlorines and endometriosis: A mini-review

Organochlorine exposure alters thyroid function in preschoolers

Organophosphate Insecticides Target the Serotonergic System in Developing Rat Brain Regions: Disparate Effects of Diazinon & Parathion at Doses Spanning the Threshold for Cholinesterase Inhibition

Organophosphates reduces the expression of neurotrophic factors

Permethrin/Resmethrin  and Nitrate/Nitrite

Persistent organochlorine pesticides in human milk samples from Australia

Pesticides: Germany Bans Chemicals Linked To Honeybee Devastation

Pesticides, chemicals can cause penile defects, toxicologist warns

Pesticide Dangers to Human Health Carry Through Multiple Generations

Pesticide Exposure and Head Blows Increase Parkinson's Risk

Pesticide exposure and self-reported Parkinson's disease in the agricultural health study

Pesticide Exposure Linked to Breast Cancer

Pesticide Exposure Threatens Children

Pesticide Exposed Mother Gives Birth to Limbless Boy

Pesticide illness among flight attendants due to aircraft disinsection.

Pesticide loadings of select organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticides in urban public housing.

Pesticide maker gives old chemicals new life

Pesticide toxicity and the developing brain.

Pesticide urinary metabolite levels of children in eastern North Carolina farmworker households

Pesticides and Anencephaly

Pesticides and child neurodevelopment.

Pesticides and farmer health in Nicaragua: a willingness-to-pay approach to evaluation.

Pesticides And Schools: A 'Tragic' Health Hazard

Pesticides and susceptible populations

Pesticides and susceptible populations: people with butyrylcholinesterase genetic variants may be at risk.

PESTICIDES BLAMED FOR SHARP RISE IN PREMATURE BIRTHS

Pesticides Damage the Nervous System

Pesticides: Germany Bans Chemicals Linked To Honeybee Devastation

Pesticides may be altering constitutive nitric oxide release, thereby compromising health

Pesticides may be making kids sick at school

Pesticide poisonings likely under-reported

Pesticides reduce symbiotic efficiency of nitrogen-fixing rhizobia and host plants.

Pesticides: NYC Settles Lawsuit against Giuliani, et. al.

Planned Ont. ban on cosmetic use of pesticides to be toughest in North America

Plant-derived human acetylcholinesterase-R provides protection from lethal organophosphate poisoning and its chronic aftermath

Plants that can kill other plants studied as alternatives for pesticides

PON1Q192R genetic polymorphism modifies organophosphorous pesticide effects on semen quality and DNA integrity in agricultural workers from southern Mexico.

Popular Pesticides More Dangerous Than You Think

Potato fields, pesticides and Parkinson's  (scroll down for the article)

Premature Births Peak Seasonally When Pesticides And Nitrates In Surface Water Are Highest

Prenatal Exposure to Household Pesticides May Increase Cancer Risk in Children

Prenatal Organochlorine Exposure and Measures of Behavior in Infancy Using the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS)

Prenatal Organophosphate Metabolite and Organochlorine Levels and Performance on the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale in a Multiethnic Pregnancy Cohort.

Prenatal Pesticide and PCB Exposures and Birth Outcomes.

Programme to Monitor Pesticide Residues in Offing

Proper Management Of Organophosphorus Pesticide Poisoning Might Reduce Global Suicide Rates

Pyrethrin and pyrethroid exposures in the United States: a longitudinal analysis of incidents reported to poison centers

Pyrethroid re-evaluation will reach far beyond California

Reassessment Status List

Reported Residential Pesticide Use and Breast Cancer Risk on Long Island, New York.

Research Finds That Breakdown Products of Widely Used Pesticides are Acutely Lethal to Amphibians

Residues of 18 organochlorine pesticides in 30 traditional Chinese medicines.

Round-Up ready nation

Safe 'Green' Decontamination Method Detoxifies Nerve Agents In Chemical Weapons And Pesticides

Safe pesticides now first in poisonings

Satellites are being used to track pesticides

Saying before spraying Sign-up deadline for pesticide notice around the corner

Scientists Estimate that Pesticides are Reducing Crop Yield by ONE-THIRD

Study links pesticide to learning disorder

Study suggests pesticides 'crucial' for EU food supply

Study: Fewer Pesticides Used in Schools

Subchronic intoxication with chlorfenvinphos, an organophosphate insecticide, affects rat brain antioxidative enzymes and glutathione level

Surveillance of pesticide-related illness in the developing world: putting the data to work.

Synergy between repellents and non-pyrethroid insecticides strongly extends the efficacy of treated nets against Anopheles gambiae

The effects of anticholinergic insecticides on human mesenchymal  stem cells 

The effects of diazinon on lipid peroxidation and antioxidant enzymes in rat erythrocytes: role of vitamins E and C.

The effects of Organophosphate pesticide Exposure on Hispanic children's cognitive and behavioral  functioning

Think That Your Gift Is Pesticide-Free? Give Organic Flowers and It Will Be

Thousands Exposed to Poison by Government's Aerial Spraying

Time- and Dose-Dependent Effects of Roundup on Human Embryonic and Placental Cells

Tips for Inert Ingredients

Toxic effects of DDT and methyl mercury on the hepatocytes from Hoplias malabaricus.

Toxicokinetics and Tissue Distribution of Deltamethrin in Adult Sprague-Dawley Rats

Toxicological Profile for Pyrethrins and Pyrethroids

Twin analyses of fatigue

Type 2 Diabetes May be Linked to Pesticide Exposure

Use of Household pesticides during pregnancy increases the risk of childhood leukemia

U.S. EPA settles with The Clorox Company for $95,000 for distributing export-only pesticides in Southern California

US inquiry claims 'safe' insecticides cause health problems

Unusual susceptible to the toxicity of cocaine & organophosphorus pesticide

Victims of fungicide receive payout

Weeds are retreating, but worries remain

Weight gain associated with chronic exposure to chlorpyrifos in rats

Westchester seeks to control pesticides

When are pesticides sprayed near your child's day care?

Widespread Toxic Chemical Use Allowed by States on Public Property

Within- and Between-Home Variability in Indoor-Air Insecticide Levels during Pregnancy among an Inner-City Cohort from New York City