Tag: pesticides

The 10-year order bars the company from rewarding distributors that buy most of a pesticide from Corteva, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

The agencies created a joint working group of seven federal offices, while a Center for Food Safety scientist says the EPA has excluded 78% of studies as not relevant.

Three advocacy groups are suing to block the pesticide, arguing it also threatens four endangered fish species.

A new comprehensive meta-analysis published last month in the International Journal of Cancer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln analyzed findings from 88 epidemiological studies spanning more than 40 years.

A study reveals that the pace of loss has quickened significantly over the last three decades, particularly in regions dominated by intensive agriculture.

For these items, nearly 60 percent of samples had no detectable pesticide residues, making them safer options to buy non-organic.

According to Environmental Working Group, 37 percent of California-grown produce samples contained at least one of 17 different PFAS pesticide residues.

The study was a result of researchers discovering the mass die-off of hundreds of monarch butterflies near the Pacific Grove Monarch Sanctuary in California, where the butterflies overwinter.

Western monarch butterflies overwinter along the Pacific coast, but they are vulnerable to pesticide residue and drift from nearby farms and urban areas.

New research shows diquat, used in place of glyphosate, is more toxic and banned abroad but widely sprayed in US agriculture.