Sentences with word «endosulfan»

The agency's move reverses a decision made in 2002 under the Bush Administration that allowed continued use of endosulfan with some restrictions.

Buying organic cashews is best because conventionally grown cashew trees are often sprayed with endosulfan.

The new report by Islam and his team, published in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, found that a number of pesticides — including endosulfan — were being used.

Because of the risks to human health and the environment, «pesticide products containing endosulfan do not meet the standard for registration» under a federal law governing pesticides, EPA officials announced.

United Nations countries are evaluating endosulfan for inclusion in the Stockholm Convention, an international treaty which bans or restricts persistent organic pollutants — chemicals that can build up in the environment.

The state declared endosulfan a toxic air contaminant in 2008, which triggered efforts to reduce people's exposure.

The ban on endosulfan will leave dicofol as the last major chlorinated pesticide allowed today in the United States, where it is used to kill mites, mostly on cotton and citrus.

EPA officials said new research shows that the health risks to workers who apply endosulfan to crops «are greater than previously known, in many instances exceeding the agency's levels of concern.»

Like DDT, endosulfan builds up in the environment and in the bodies of people and wildlife, and it is transported around the world via winds and currents.

Studies on the leachate characteristics of nitrates and endosulfan from agricultural subsoil

After a lengthy scientific review, the United States last week decided to ban the use of endosulfan, an inexpensive organochlorine pesticide that builds up in the environment.

The agency is now working with endosulfan's sole manufacturer, Makhteshim Agan of North America, a North Carolina subsidiary of an Israeli company, to terminate all uses yet give growers time to shift to alternatives.

Illegal toxic pesticides are also routinely used to farm shrimp in some of these areas, including endosulfan, a broad - spectrum insecticide that is banned in more than 80 countries due to its environmental and human toxicity.

The EPA, declaring that endosulfan is unsafe for farm workers, moves to ban one of the last organochlorine pesticides left in the U.S. Like DDT, endosulfan accumulates in the environment and in the bodies of people and wildlife, and is transported around the world to remote places

A third organochlorine on the list, endosulfan, is still used in the United States.

First registered for use in the United States in the 1950s, endosulfan is one of the most abundant pesticides found in the global atmosphere.

Its conclusion: «While a few crop uses have relatively high benefits for growers, the nationwide benefits to society as a whole are low for all uses of endosulfan and do not exceed the risks,» says an EPA document released online Wednesday.

Declaring that endosulfan is unsafe, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it is about to ban one of the last organochlorine pesticides still used in the United States.

The human effects are largely unknown but tests on lab animals have shown that endosulfan is toxic to the nervous system and can damage the kidney, liver and male reproductive organs.

The coalition of environmental and farm worker advocates that sued the EPA welcomed the decision to ban all uses of endosulfan.

Two months later, California officials — who also were reviewing the risks of endosulfan — reported an even higher risk to workers than the EPA reported.

In late 2007, the EPA updated its assessment of endosulfan's risks based largely on new research showing effects on the developing brains of lab animals and studies of farm workers that showed their exposure was greater than previously believed despite use of protective equipment.

The top crops that use endosulfan are tomatoes, cucurbits (which include melons, cucumbers and squashes), potatoes, apples and cotton.

Traces of endosulfan are found on food crops, but EPA officials say the risks from consuming the residue are low.

Last year, the EPA launched a review of the economic benefits of endosulfan, which is required before banning a substance under federal pesticides law.

Another study from 2007 found that mothers who lived near fields with the highest applications of two now - banned pesticides — endosulfan and dicofol — were six times more likely to have kids with autism spectrum disorders.

Specifically, SUPERB homed in on 44 foods known to have high concentrations of toxic compounds: metals, arsenic, lead, and mercury; pesticides chlorpyrifos, permethrin, and endosulfan; persistent organic pollutants dioxin, DDT, dieldrin, and chlordane; and the food processing byproduct acrylamide.

The 11 toxin compounds looked at were: metals, arsenic, lead, and mercury; pesticides chlorpyrifos, permethrin, and endosulfan; persistent organic pollutants dioxin, DDT, dieldrin, and chlordane; and the food processing byproduct acrylamide.

Buying organic cashews is best because conventionally grown cashew trees are often sprayed with endosulfan.

Endrin (Hexadrin), aldrin (Aldrite, Drinox), endosulfan (Thiodan), dieldrin (Dieldrite), toxaphene (Toxakil, Strobane - T), lindane (gamma BHC or HCH, Isotox), hexachlorocyclohexane (BHC), DDT (chlorophenothane), heptachlor (Heptagran), chlordecone (Kepone), terpene polychlorinates (Strobane), chlordane (Chlordan), dicofol (Kelthane), mirex (Dechlorane), methoxychlor (Marlate), dienochlor (Pentac), TDE (DDD, Rhothane), ethylan (Perthane).

The organophosphates in question — carbendazim and endosulfan — had been recognised as potentially dangerous and even banned in some countries, but were still recommended for use in Australia, said Landos.