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ReSource - Trouble in the Water
DDT on all 265,000 acres of the Cape. They came back ... Cape spraying DDT, the pilots did not know they were dropping time bombs on people's health, just as thousands of others spraying the insecticide ... kept Trouvelot's moths in France and stopped the production of DDT. It is a "guilty until proven innocent" policy for chemicals. ...
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EHP: Volume 106, Number 6 June 1998
Zeger SL, et al. A Retrospective Performance Assessment of the ... Makris SL, et al. DDT Exposure of Zebrafish Embryos Enhances Sei... Tiedeken JA, et al. Hydroxylated Metabolites of ... Things Biological P. A280 Innovations Drugs from Dinoflagellates P. A284 Commentaries Exposures from Indoor Spraying of Chlorpyrifos Pose Greater Health Risks to Children than Currently Estimated Devra Lee Davis ...
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Biological Control Methods for Pests in Commercial Greenhouses
(Farr, et se. 1976) With the introduction of DDT in the 1940's, the use of biological control agents virtually ... they reported a 60% to 80% reduction in time spent on spraying for whitefly or spider mites 23% reported increased crop yields ... leaf miners become a problem in tomato crops when they stopped spraying for whitefly. Some growers, however, observed that the leaf miners ...
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Dusky Seaside Sparrow
December, 1990. The dusky's demise began in the 1940's when man began spraying the marshes with DDT for mosquito control. The pesticide entered the birds' food chain, and the dusky ...
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EJF: Endosulfan - a Deadly Chemical
Worse still, endosulfan, like DDT, is an organochlorine and persists in the environment long after ... with endosulfan: ``Fields smell awful two or three days after spraying because virtually every living thing has been killed and starts ... and disorders among cashew nut plantation workers and villagers. Aerial spraying over many years has led to shockingly high levels of ...
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Habitat Media - interview transcript
DDT. Yes it kills bugs, very powerful, but you know insects are the most numerous most ...
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Picking Cotton Carefully
The independent investigations continued for a further two spraying seasons; 577 chemical poisonings and 97 deaths were recorded during ... percent of the land and groundwater at 100-150metres with DDT and lindane [3]. The Uzbekistan State forces children, teachers ...
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UNEP Global POPs Treaty ( INC4/Bonn, March 2000 )
America, DDT and other hazardous commercial pesticides banned for use in northern industrialized countries are still being imported and used in agricultural practices, which in many countries still include aerial spraying. ... or protective gear when they are given pesticide tanks to carry on their backs for spraying crops. In 1997 in Sonora, Mexico, a scientific study was conducted in the homelands ...
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Today, an estimated nine African nations are using DDT. Malaria is increasing in many countries. It might be tempting to attribute this increase to reduced use of DDT. ... bed net programs can encounter substantial obstacles in implementation. PAHO, while highly critical of spraying programs, has also noted problems with alternatives. Periodic review under the Treaty will help ...
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Safe Malaria Solutions - Beyond DDT | Pesticide Action Network North America
Activities Lindane Alternatives What You Can Do DDT & Malaria DDT Home Page DDT/Malaria Newsroom Reliance on DDT Solutions Around the World Who is Promoting DDT? Experts Ask: Why DDT? Endosulfan Health Effects Global Use ... solutions. Spraying of DDT inside homes is not such a solution: it puts families and children at risk, and relying on DDT is not the best way to stop malaria. Exposure to DDT is ...
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