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EPA Announces Public Role in Pesticide Registration Process
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the establishment of “a new transparent process” intended to allow the public to review and comment on risk assessments and proposed registration decisions for pesticides. According to EPA, this expanded process will apply to all new pesticide active ingredients and first food uses, first outdoor uses, and first residential uses. Starting ...
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Towards more reliable measurements of pesticides in wheat
To ensure that food can safely be consumed, EU laws set limits for pesticides in food, called Maximum Residue Limits. Consequently, enforcement laboratories regularly measure the pesticide present in food to check that those limits are respected. If exceeded, food products are declared unfit for consumption. But measuring pesticide residues remains challenging. Currently, the maximum residue ...
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Broad Coalition is Building Buzz to Raise Awareness of Pollinator Declines
Today, Beyond Pesticides, Center for Food Safety and Pesticide Action Network, supported by Ceres Trust and joined by more than 60 other organizations, launched a national media campaign to bring attention to the severity of pollinator declines due in part to the use of bee-harming pesticides. The campaign launch was timed to coincide with the beginning of the European Union’s two-year ...
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EPA opens transparency window into pesticide registration decisions
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is establishing a new transparent process that will allow the public to review and comment on risk assessments and proposed registration decisions for pesticides. This expanded process will apply to all new pesticide active ingredients and first food uses, first outdoor uses, and first residential uses. “This new process will give the public greater ...
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West Africans would pay more for pesticide-free food
Even in poor settings, shoppers say they are willing to pay more for organically grown vegetables, a study in West Africa has found. Researchers from Benin and the United Kingdom surveyed 100 people shopping for cabbages and tomatoes in Benin and Ghana about their ideas on vegetable quality, their awareness of the use of synthetic pesticides, and their willingness to pay more for chemical-free ...
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Bees actively prefer nectar contaminated with neonicotinoid pesticides
Honeybees and bumblebees prefer feeding on nectar laced with certain neonicotinoid pesticides to uncontaminated food, new research has shown. Far from the predictions of some, that bees would avoid food contaminated with neonicotinoid pesticides if given the choice, a new study has shown that bees did not avoid any of the three most common neonicotinoids: imidacloprid, thiamethoxam or ...
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We Have Feed Mixer Machine On Sale
Using a mixer, many processes get simple, and the mixer used to mix a variety of raw materials. Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery is a professional feed mixing machine manufacturer, this article will introduce how to choose a feed mixing machine in detail. The Classification Of Feed Mixing Machine Generally, feed mixer commonly divided into vertical feed mixer and horizontal feed mixer. The feed mixing ...
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How To Choose A High-quality Feed Mixer
Using a mixer, many processes get simple, and the mixer used to mix a variety of raw materials. Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery is a professional feed mixing machine manufacturer, this article will introduce how to choose a feed mixing machine in detail. The Classification Of Feed Mixing Machine Generally, feed mixer commonly divided into vertical feed mixer and horizontal feed mixer. The feed mixing ...
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NRDC: House farm bill should be plowed under
The U.S. House today approved a Farm Bill that cuts conservation, undermines longstanding environmental protections and denies states the right to set farm-related standards. Franz Matzner, the Natural Resources Defense Council’s associate director of government affairs, made these comments on the bill: “Once again, House Republicans are pushing an extreme agenda, this time to gut ...
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Common Pesticide Reduces Food Value of Algae
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (ENS) - Researchers with the NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science have identified negative effects of the commonly used herbicide atrazine on phytoplankton, the free-floating algae that form the base of the food chain for aquatic animals. Published in the current issue of the journal 'Pesticide-Biochemistry and Physiology,' the study indicates protein levels ...
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Third set of 2009 pesticide residue figures released
The Pesticide Residues Committee today published its third quarterly report for samples collected in 2009. The report found that the majority of foods had no detectable residues and those that did contain pesticides were not likely to be harmful to health. Tests found that 656 out of 911 samples of 14 different foods tested had no detectable residues. Also, 248 samples contained levels below ...
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EPA proceeds with revoking regulations allowing carbofuran pesticide residues on food
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward to implement the agency’s May 2009 final rule revoking tolerances, or residue limits, for the pesticide carbofuran. EPA continues to find that dietary exposures to carbofuran from all sources combined are not safe. “The evidence is clear that carbofuran does not meet today’s rigorous food-safety standards,” said Steve Owens, assistant ...
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EPA Announces Final Decision to Register Enlist Duo, Herbicide Containing 2, 4-D and Glyphosate/Risk assessment ensures protection of human health, including infants, children
The EPA is registering the herbicide, Enlist Duo with first-time ever restrictions to manage the problem of resistant weeds. The pesticide is for use in controlling weeds in corn and soybeans genetically-engineered (GE) to tolerate 2,4-D and glyphosate. The agency’s decision reflects a large body of science and an understanding of the risk of pesticides to human health and the environment. ...
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Farm Feed Mixer Machine Feed Mixing Machine Application In Feed Plant
In modern feed production, the quality of feed has attracted more and more attention. The mixing evenness of feed pellets is an important index to reflect the quality of feed processing, otherwise, it’s the main parameter to evaluate the mixing performance of the farm feed mixer machine. Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery Manufactured Mixer Machine Our company Fusmar manufactured mixer machine ...
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Farm Feed Mixer Machine Application In Feed Plant Is Popular
In modern feed production, the quality of feed has attracted more and more attention. The mixing evenness of feed pellets is an important index to reflect the quality of feed processing, otherwise, it’s the main parameter to evaluate the mixing performance of the farm feed mixer machine. Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery Manufactured Mixer Machine Our company Fusmar manufactured mixer machine ...
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The Netherlands doesn’t succeed in reaching target for responsable soy
The Dutch Soy Coalition (formed by eight development and environmental organisations*) finds that in 2013, only a quarter of the 2.4 metric tons of soy used in the Netherlands is responsibly produced. The social or environmental consequences of the production of the other three quarters of the imported soy, are not at all clear or accounted for. The target of the Netherlands is to purchase 100 ...
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Fears over pesticide exposure in the month of conception
New research reveals that babies conceived in the spring and summer are more likely than others to be born with birth defects. One possible cause is the levels of pesticides in surface water happen to peak at the same time. The study, published in the US medical journal Acta Pædiatrica links the increasing number of birth defects in children of women whose last menstrual period occurred in April ...
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EPA Takes Action to Protect Public from an Illegal Nano Silver Pesticide in Food Containers
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued an order to the Pathway Investment Corp. of Englewood, New Jersey to stop the sale of plastic food storage containers that have not been tested or registered with the EPA, in violation of federal pesticides law. The company’s Kinetic Go Green Premium Food Storage Containers and Kinetic Smartwist Series Containers both contain nano silver ...
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New Validated Analytical Workflow Facilitates Sensitive and Reliable Determination of Anionic Pesticides in Food
A new, validated ion chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (IC-MS/MS) analytical workflow is designed to enable food testing laboratories to overcome the challenges associated with liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis of polar anionic pesticides in complex sample matrices. The Thermo Scientific Anionic Pesticides Explorer is a high-throughput, sample-to-result, ...
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Validated Analytical Workflow Facilitates the Routine Determination of Pesticides in Food Samples
AOAC 2019 -- A new workflow is designed to provide a validated analytical method combining advanced high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and triple quadrupole mass spectrometry (MS) capabilities for the reliable and sensitive quantitation of pesticides in complex sample matrices. This is designed to help food testing laboratories more efficiently comply with global regulatory ...
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