Sentences with phrase «including insecticide»

New research, published this month in Environmental Health Perspectives, shows that persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including the insecticide DDT, travel in air and water currents around the world's -LSB-...]

The thousand study participants also received supporting interventions including insecticide - treated bed nets to avoid malaria infection and a safe water system.

Traditional methods used to limit the impact of MSD include insecticides to control leafhopper populations (which are not affordable to most small - scale farmers and can be environmentally damaging), and conventional selective breeding of maize for resistance traits that naturally exist in some varieties.

This includes insecticides, pesticides and herbicides — any chemical ending in - cide — as well as fertilizers and similar chemical - laden products designed to enhance growth.

Many of these products include an insecticide called pyrethrum.

Not exact matches

This included 26.3 million pounds of herbicides, 2.4 million pounds of insecticides, 26,000 pounds of fungicides, and 9.5 million pounds of «other» pesticides (including defoliants).

[9] Cotton accounted for 5.7 % by value of all the plant protection chemicals sold that year, including 16.1 % of all insecticide sales, 3.9 % of herbicide sales, 4 % of growth regulators / desiccants / defoliants, and 1 % of world fungicide sales.

Examples of products that are allowed include soap - based herbicides and pesticides in certain circumstances, and botanically - based insecticides like neem and pyrethrum.

Organic insecticides include rotenone, pyrethrum, and microbial preparations like Bacillus.

Active ingredients include: Anti-oxidant Natural Vitamin E, Balsam of Peru, Salicylic Acid, Yellow Petrolatum, and Insecticide - free Anhydrous Lanolin.

The items include mattresses, rice, sugar, blankets, plastic buckets, plates, mosquito coils, Insecticide Treated Mosquito Nets, and several others.

Mr Oppong - Nkrumah donated items including mattresses, blankets, buckets, insecticides, mosquito nets and food items to the affected residents of the floods.

A recent scientific literature review conducted by researchers in the U.K., Japan, France and Italy concluded that exposure to systemic insecticides, including neonics, renders bees more susceptible to numerous diseases.

Agricultural chemistry includes the application of chemical fertilizer, chemical insecticides, and chemical fungicides, soil makeup, analysis of agricultural products, and nutritional needs of farm animals.

These pollutants include not only leaked motor oil — which may contain toxic substances like lead, benzene, zinc or magnesium — but also fertilizers, insecticides, plastic debris, cigarette butts, paints, solvents, sediments and other hazardous waste.

6 Each year, consumers in the United States spread 300 million pounds of chemical insecticides, including compounds that the EPA says may impair the nervous system, disrupt hormones in the body, or cause cancer.

In sub-Saharan Africa, multiple factors, including the widespread use of long - lasting insecticidal nets, indoor residual spraying, exposure to chemical pollutants, urbanization, and agricultural practices, are contributing to the selection of malaria mosquitoes that are highly resistant to several classes of insecticide.

Continued support for the development of other novel strategies including drugs, improved case management, insecticides, and new approaches to vector control, is needed before effective dengue control becomes a credible prospect.

Many plants, including some genetically altered ones, rely on a biologically produced insecticide called Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) for protection against pests.

Such high levels of genetic variation poise mosquito populations to rapidly evolve in response to our efforts to control them whether that be with insecticides or any other control measure, including gene drive.»

Then there are the delicate interactions between warblers and armyworm caterpillars, including what happens when the system breaks down through habitat destruction from logging and the overuse of insecticides.

Neonicotinoid insecticides are neurotoxic and used around the world on broad varieties of crops, including common fruits and vegetables, through spray, soil and seed applications.

The 78 pesticides included 45 herbicides and plant growth regulators, 25 insecticides, six fungicides, one fumigant and one rodenticide.

In the decades that follow, authorities spray more than 4 billion pounds of the insecticide worldwide, including on New York's Jones Beach.

Several approaches may be needed, such as introducing fly - parasitizing wasps, removing chicks from nests for hand - rearing, raising sterile male flies to mate with females so they can't lay eggs in finch nests, and using insecticides, including placing pesticide - treated cotton balls where birds can collect them to self - fumigate their nests.

The insecticides included pirimicarb, pyrethrum, dichlorvos and cycloprothrin.

Testing of the first chemicals, including the herbicides 2,4 - D and atrazine and the insecticide malathion, was scheduled to follow, but the EPA pushed back its deadlines yet again, to early 2009.

The plan, to be carried out by national malaria - control agencies in Cambodia and Thailand with support from various research institutes, includes rapid and widespread treatment with ACTs, improved mosquito control, the distribution of long - lasting insecticide - impregnated bed nets, a ban on monotherapies in Cambodia (they are already rare in Thailand), and an information campaign.

Regulators are concerned because growing evidence shows that some synthetic chemicals — including those found in in insecticides, herbicides, fumigants, fungicides, detergents, resins and plasticizers — may disrupt the body's endocrine system, which controls many important functions by emitting hormones, or natural chemical messengers.

The meeting explored the genomic epidemiology of the host, vector and parasite, highlighting the practical relevance of this research to global health, including antimalarial drug resistance, insecticide resistance, vaccine design, and mechanisms of protective immunity.

Topics this year include genomic epidemiology of the host, vector and parasite, highlighting the practical relevance of this research to global health, including anti-malarial drug resistance, insecticide resistance, vaccine design, and mechanisms of protective immunity.

Phthalates are found in a wide variety of products, including plastics, building materials, cleaning products, insecticides, pharmaceuticals, food packaging, home décor, children's toys, and personal care products.

Work undertaken during this period included demonstration of the efficacy of insecticide treated bed - nets in preventing death from malaria in African children and demonstration of the impact of Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines when deployed in sub-Saharan Africa.

This includes Genome - Wide Association Studies (GWAS) to identify genetic loci associated with insecticide resistance and population genetic studies to describe population sub-structuring.

His work on aphids has broadened to examine the molecular basis of all aphid interactions with their environment, including the genetic and epigenetic factors controlling aphid polyphenism and the molecular basis of insecticide resistance.

The 100 - page report, «The Impact of the Nation's Most Widely Used Insecticides on Birds,» reviews 200 studies on neonicotinoids including industry research obtained through the US Freedom of Information Act.

Aldicarb, cotton's second best - selling insecticide and most acutely poisonous to humans and wildlife, is still used in 25 countries, including the U.S., where 16 states reported it in their groundwater.

The category «Fluorine Insecticides» include Cryolite, Barium hexafluorosilicate, Sodium hexafluorosilicate, Sodium fluoride, and Sulfluramid and the herbicides Trifluralin, Fluometuron and Benefin (Befluralin)(EPA, Aug 97).

The greatest potential sources of exposure include crop spraying, weed killers, pesticides and insecticides used in the garden and fly sprays and ant powders used in the home.

Non-organic pumpkin seeds are grown by conventional farming methods, which could include the use of insecticides, fertilizers, and other chemicals.

Toxins can be either exogenous or endogenous; exogenous toxins come from external sources, including environmental by - products, heavy metals, insecticides, pesticides, fragrances, cleansers, plastics, MSG, aspartame and house hold cleaners, whereas endogenous toxins are produced within us as a result of metabolic activities, such as carbon dioxide, lactic acid, urea, poor gut bacteria and intestinal yeast, in the event that dysbiosis (an imbalance of gut flora) is present.

These include herbicides and insecticides, vehicle and factory emissions, heavy metals in our food and cosmetics, and cleaning products laden with chemicals such as benzene and chlorine.

Other contaminates are brought in as well including fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides and other xenobiotics.

According to the organization Beyond Pesticides, it takes a ton of chemicals to preserve the pristine green turf and that includes synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and more.

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.

Some varieties are also «altered» to include built - in insecticide.

It tells of my seven different careers, including selling paint, testing and marketing insecticides, also buying a tiny island off the south coast of Devon, then restoring its art deco hotel.

The crossword includes questions the EU ban on an insecticide that's been killing bees for years, Japan's objection to the mango mousse at the North and South Korea summit, and the really big news about the Tasmanian devils.

Revolution ® is as effective topical insecticide, and Trifexis ®, K9Advantix II ®, and Frontline Plus ® are topicals that include a flea - sterilizing ingredient as well.

Upsets to your Schnauzer's immune system can come from many sources including: emotional stresses like separation anxiety, moving to a new home, travel, boarding..., eating a poor quality diet, taking medications, exposure to chemicals like insecticides and pesticides, drinking unfiltered water, and the list goes on and on.