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• Experts have supported genetically modified brinjal: Minister

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The genetically modified Bt Brinjal has been developed in compliance with international norms and experts evaluating it have found no danger in it, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here Tuesday.Supporting the experts’ panel — which has been criticised by ...
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• Ont. providing $3.8M to company using nanotechnology to build better pesticide (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 154
  TORONTO - Ontario is providing $3.8 million to a company that’s using nanotechnology to build a better pesticide for farmers. (read the story…) Related items Ont. providing $3.8M to company using nanotechnology to build better pesticide (Brandon Sun) From the Lab, a New Weapon Against Cholesterol (New ...
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• Ont. providing $3.8M to company using nanotechnology to build better pesticide (Brandon Sun)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 154
  TORONTO - Ontario is providing $3.8 million to a company that’s using nanotechnology to build a better pesticide for farmers. Government officials say the money will help Toronto-based Vive Nano build a plant that’s expected to create 19 new jobs over two years. (read the story…) Related items Ont. ...
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• Using Chocolate to Exterminate Coyotes

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 526
  Chocolate, like many of the things we eat regularly, is a potentially fatal poison, and so it should come as no surprise that a study by the unimaginatively-named John Johnston (at the USDA National Wildlife Research Center) shows that our favourite sweet could prove to be an effective pesticide, for use against ...
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• Ministry Of Health: Fruit And Vegetables Sold In Beijing Are Safe

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 432
  In a response to a Greenpeace report that said fruit and vegetables sold in four major supermarkets of Beijing contain high levels of pesticide, Chinas Ministry of Health has stated that all the fruit and vegetables sold in these supermarkets are fit for consumption.The ministry was reporting the results of ...
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• News Feed — November 20, 2009

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 492
  Fund Good Food The Kellogg Foundation announced $32 million worth of grants in the local food arena last week, to be spent over the next three years in nine communities across the country. Or Not Many are disappointed by the results of the World Hunger Summit in Rome this week, where few leaders from wealthier ...
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• 6 Ways Agriculture Impacts Global Warming

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 719
  Photo credit: SugarCreekPhoto via Flickr Sure, agriculture provides us with the food we all eat every day. But do you know how those agricultural practices impact global warming? Turns out theres some pretty big impacts, on both the sustainable and industrial sides of the equation; employing sustainable practices, ...
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• Bhopal gas tragedy survivors protest at Dow Chemical’s office

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Noida, Nov 19 (IANS) Demanding that Dow Chemicals pay for cleaning up the toxic contamination due to the Bhopal gas tragedy, more than 300 survivors of the disaster staged a protest outside the company’s office in this Uttar Pradesh suburb of Delhi Thursday.The protesters gathered outside the company’s office at ...
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• New iPhone App Makes Eating Safely a Little Easier

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 626
  Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Kristin Schafer, Associate Director for Advocacy at the Pesticide Action Network. I like my cranberries and pumpkin pie chemical-free. It’s not that you can taste or smell pesticides on food–the levels are much too low for that. It’s just that I sleep better ...
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• Tier 1 Rice Model for Estimating Pesticide Concentrations in Ric...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  The Tier 1 Rice Model estimates screening level aquatic concentrations of pesticides in rice paddies. It is a simple pesticide soil:water partitioning model with default values for water volume, soil mass, and organic carbon. Pesticide degradation is not considered in the model.
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• Chemicals Found in Tap Water- The Five Most Harmful

  
  gothinking.net — Authority: 152
  Did you undergo that there are bruising chemicals in your supposedly innocuous crapulence water? The polity has never proven to conceal the fact that there are chemicals institute in touch water. Government officials same to pore on chemicals that they study adjuvant such as fluoride. Since fluoride is necessary to ...
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• First tests for pesticide endocrine effects in US

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  More than a decade after Congress directed the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to carry out assessments of endocrine disrupting chemicals, the agency has announced the first set of compounds to be screened under its Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP). Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that can ...
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• Watch Out ... Itll Gum Ya To Death

  
  The Cracked Crystal Ball II — Authority: 421
  Calgarys city council decided to tackle the bugbear of pesticide use in the city. Perhaps to nobodys surprise they blinked , so the proposed bylaw will merely make recommendations. Council voted Monday to direct staff to develop a pesticide control bylaw. But in an 8-7 vote, they rejected the idea of including a ...
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• Is Rec & Parks Spraying Herbicides on Twin Peaks this Month? You Bet

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 529
  This is what a Notice of Pesticide* Application  looks like – it’s from our oddly-named  San Francisco Recreation and Park Department . They’re spraying herbicides, like Roundup ProDry from Monsanto and Garlon 4 Ultra  from Dow , on 15 hilly acres up there, right above the Midtown Terrace ...
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• Childs death to Furadan not an isolated case

  
  Baraza — Authority: 482
  After WildlifeDirect spoke to the father of 3 year old Kimutai last week there has been a flurry of media regarding this case. National Geographic also interviewed the childs father and the manufacturers of Furadan, FMC claim to be conducting their own investigations . This is not the first time that a human being ...
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• November 16 roundup

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 630
  German law firm demands that Wikipedia remove true information about now-paroled murderers [ EFF ] “Class Actions: Some Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Fed Up, Too?” [ California Civil Justice ] Drop that Irish coffee and back away: “F.D.A. Says It May Ban Alcoholic Drinks With Caffeine” [ NYT ] Profile of L.A. ...
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• Inexpensive ‘Dipstick’ Test For Pesticides In Foods

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 437
  Image by summerrunner2009 via Flickr Scientists in Canada are reporting the development of a fast, inexpensive “dipstick” test to identify small amounts of pesticides that may exist in foods and beverages. Their paper-strip test is more practical than conventional pesticide tests, producing results in ...
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• Child Dies After Ingesting Pesticide Also Used to Kill Lions

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 160
  According to reports , little Kimutai, a three-year-old child from Kenya, died hours after ingesting carbofuran, an odorless pesticide used to control insects on many crops including rice, beans, bananas, pineapple, coffee and vegetables.  But the highly toxic pesticide, sold under the name Furadan and ...
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• Child Dies After Ingesting Pesticide Also Used to Kill Lions

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  According to reports , little Kimutai, a three-year-old child from Kenya, died hours after ingesting carbofuran, an odorless pesticide used to control insects on many crops including rice, beans, bananas, pineapple, coffee and vegetables.  But the highly toxic pesticide, sold under the name Furadan and ...
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• Child Dies After Ingesting Pesticide Also Used to Kill Lions

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 572
  According to reports , little Kimutai, a three-year-old child from Kenya, died hours after ingesting carbofuran, an odorless pesticide used to control insects on many crops including rice, beans, bananas, pineapple, coffee and vegetables.  But the highly toxic pesticide, sold under the name Furadan and ...
  1 week ago

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