Sentences with phrase «by the pesticide industry»

Unsurprisingly, the findings were primarily based on research submitted to the EPA by the pesticide industry, and mainly by Monsanto, the chemical company that makes Roundup.

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Their report notes that the risks from other toxic chemicals including formaldehyde, styrene, tricholorethylene, the pesticide chlorpyrifos and many others have been downplayed and regulations have been delayed or denied due to similar industry - backed computer modeling tests — in many cases, even when the industry tests are contradicted by actual biologically - based experiments.

Put together, arsenic, chromium, lead, mercury and pesticides are the leading causes of such toxic hot spots largely created by mining, metal smelting, chemical manufacture, agriculture, heavy industry, tanneries and waste disposal, among other activities.

The broad brush also fails when labeling the developers of GM technology: Commercial giants of the agrochemical pesticide industry have developed GMOs, but so have academic scientists funded by nonprofits or the public sector.

The leaded gas adventurers have profitably polluted the world on a grand scale and, in the process, have provided a model for the asbestos, tobacco, pesticide and nuclear power industries, and other twentieth - century corporate bad actors, for evading clear evidence that their products are harmful by hiding behind the mantle of scientific uncertainty.

Led by chemist Lili He, the researchers sprayed organic Gala apples with two pesticides commonly used in the apple industry — thiabendazole, a fungicide, and phosmet, an insecticide.

The true threat is environmentally destructive industries, such as Monsanto, who are systematically destroying these natural mechanisms by genetically engineering crops to act as pesticides all year round.

The information was also widely used by university and food - industry researchers, including a University of Illinois program to help farmers reduce the amount of pesticides they use.»

For example, for some time the use of pesticides such as DDT were simply not understood by the industry or government as being dangerous.