Federal Panel Okays Limited Pesticide Tests on Humans
A National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel today recommended limits on chemical industry testing of pesticides and toxic chemicals on human subjects.
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Administration Urged to Release New Pesticide Residue Data
For roughly two decades, the US Department of Agriculture has tested various fruits and vegetables for pesticide residues, usually making its findings available to the public in January. More than...
EWG Calls on EPA To Ban Use of Brain-Damaging Pesticide
The neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos should be banned for use immediately by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Environmental Working Group wrote in a public comment letter [link to letter] to...
A Loophole for Pesticides Puts Public’s Health at Risk
Shot through a legal loophole with the speed of a Major League fastball, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved roughly 11,000 pesticides intended for use in agriculture, inside homes...
EPA Proposes to Phase Out Fluoride Pesticide
EWG comments to the Environmental Protection Agency supporting a phaseout of sulfuryl fluoride, an insecticide and fumigant
Law & Order tackles human testing of pesticides
Tomorrow night, NBC will air “Loophole,” an episode on the crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which focuses on the controversial EPA rule allowing intentional dosing of people with...
Ga. City Suspends Pesticide Use on Athletic Fields
After a local 15-year-old was hospitalized due to what doctors speculated was a reaction to pesticides on her soccer field, Peachtree City, Ga., has temporarily stopped spraying fields and is looking...
Maryland County Bans Lawn Pesticides - or Does it?
The Montgomery County, Maryland, Council has passed an ordinance banning what it calls “cosmetic pesticides” on private lawns. The devil, however, is in the details. The term “cosmetic” means...
Pesticide Companies Using Humans in Lab Studies
For decades, U.S. and foreign pesticide manufacturers have been feeding their products to rats, rabbits, mice, and guinea pigs in thousands of controlled laboratory studies, all designed to satisfy...
EWG's 2012 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce
Well, as we do each year, EWG released (on June 19) the latest Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce and as we suspected, eaters around the country are still concerned about high levels of toxic...
EPA sued over potentially dangerous pesticide
When a CDC website describes the possible medical effect of a pesticide like this ...may produce a variety of effects on the nervous system including headaches, blurred vision, watering of the eyes...
Maryland County Bans Lawn Pesticides — or Does It?
The Montgomery County, Maryland, Council has passed an ordinance banning what it calls “cosmetic pesticides” on private lawns. The devil, however, is in the details. The term “cosmetic” means...
An Apple A Day, Too Much Pesticide Spray
For the fifth year in a row, EWG 's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in ProduceTM ranks apples at the top of the Dirty Dozen PlusTM list of non-organic fruits and veggies with high levels of pesticide...
On Pesticides: Canadian Bylaws and American Lawn Flags
The smell of lawn chemicals is as dependable a harbinger of spring as robins and lilacs. Not in big parts of Canada, where many municipalities and provinces have opted to abolish the cosmetic use of...
Don’t Let The Pesticide Lobby Play Bully
Tell USDA to stand by its pesticide data program. It's the time of year when the U.S. Department of Agriculture is preparing to release its annual pesticide data – information the Environmental...
Pesticide Hacks Attack Popular Shopper’s Guide
Since the Environmental Working Group released its 2011 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce earlier this year, apologists for the pesticide industry and conventional agribusiness have attacked it...
Organic Diet Reduced Children’s Exposure to Pesticides
New research in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that an organic diet significantly lowered concentrations of certain pesticides in two groups of California children.
One Pesticide Classified as Unsafe, Hundreds More to Go
Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded that carbofuran, already registered as a restricted use pesticide, poses dietary, worker and ecological risks.
Administration Releases Long Overdue Pesticide Data
The U.S. Department of Agriculture ignored the intense pressure from the produce and pesticide industry and released its extensive annual analysis of pesticide residues on fresh fruits and vegetables...
As U.S. Ignores Risks to Kids, E.U. Bans Brain-Damaging Pesticide
The European Union today confirmed it will ban the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on food crops early next year, citing the risk of brain damage to children – evidence the U.S. Environmental...
Research
Forbidden Fruit | Illegal Pesticides in the US Food Supply
Most people believe that the produce they buy meets pesticide safety standards. But as this study shows, fruits and vegetables with illegal pesticides end up on grocery shelves, in kitchens, and in lunchboxes throughout the country every day. Forbidden Fruit analyzes 14,923 computerized records from the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) routine pesticide monitoring program for the fiscal years
Phased out pesticide still depletes the ozone layer
Methyl bromide, an organic halogen compound, is a dangerous pesticide used as a soil sterilant, and as general purpose fumigant that kills rats, insects and a variety of pests. It is also one of the...
EPA Guts Safety Standards for Pesticide at Request of Manufacturer
At the request of a single manufacturer - Edwards-Councilor Co., Inc. of Virginia Beach, VA - the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has weakened federal safety standards for a toxic chemical that...
Hold the Mayo, Extra Pesticides: Americans are sold on organics
Over the past decade, organic produce sales have soared from 3 percent of the retail produce market in the U.S. in 2000 to nearly 11 percent last year, to $9.5 billion. According to surveys by the...