Sentences with phrase «many organophosphates»

[13] IARC Monographs Volume 112: Evaluation of five organophosphate insecticides and herbicides.

RMIT University is studying the health impacts of organophosphates on 14 — 16 year olds.

The results of the week - long study of adults prompted the scientists to begin a ground breaking study testing the levels of organophosphates in children 14 — 16 years.

They found adults who lived on at least an 80 per cent organic diet for a week had significantly lower organophosphate pesticide residues in their urine than those who ate a diet of conventional foods.

Certified organic produce does not contain organophosphates, MSG or other nasty chemicals.

The FAO reports that in 2001 (last year full data is available) Kenya used 303 metric tons of insecticides on its crops (215 of which were nasty organophosphates) versus 153 in Ethiopia and 69 in Rwanda.

This testing looks at organochlorides, organophosphates, triazines, synthetic herbicides & fungicides and heavy metals such as arsenic, lead, chromium and mercury.

These are the chemicals I really worry about in terms of American kids, the organophosphate pesticides like chlorpyrifos,» Landrigan says.

He also recorded several empty containers of a concentrated organophosphate insecticide — a lethal nerve poison that's toxic to wildlife.

The researchers mixed RHP with a protein called organophosphorus hydrolase (OPH), which degrades the toxic organophosphates found in insecticides and chemical warfare agents.

Chlorpyrifos is a widely used organophosphate in crop management.

Lying on the table and breathing in fresh air, Killingsworth thought back to the morning seven years ago when his office was sprayed with Dursban, a potent organophosphate pesticide that has been banned for indoor use since 2000.

Intermittent lower - dose exposures can be as toxic as a single higher - dose exposure; Miller cites monkey research showing that either 10 nontoxic weekly doses or one toxic dose of an organophosphate pesticide led to the same increase in brain wave activity as measured by electroencephalogram, or EEG.

Some countries have switched from pyrethroids to an organophosphate insecticide called actellic.

In the mid-1990s, she and her colleague Howard Mitzel surveyed 37 individuals who had become permanently ill after an exposure to organophosphate pesticides, and another 75 individuals who got ill after extensive remodeling in the home or office.

With IRS, one option is to switch to an insecticide from one of the other available classes: organochlorides, carbamates, and organophosphates.

Many troops were exposed to a class of chemicals called organophosphates, which include everything from pesticides to sarin gas, a chemical weapon.

Many blame neonicotinoid insecticides — a new type of insecticide related to nicotine that attacks the nervous system of the insects and is deemed less toxic than organophosphates — although not everyone agrees.

Like their predecessors that are being phased out, organophosphates aren't bound to products and can migrate out and accumulate in indoor air and in dust, on floors and on other surfaces.

California, Weston said, doesn't want to return to using organophosphates such as chlorpyrifos, which was banned from household use because of human health concerns, «but they want to control the use of pyrethroids to minimize the environmental effects we document.»

Through multiple studies over the past five years, Heather M. Stapleton and colleagues have found that organophosphates are among the most commonly detected flame retardants in furniture and electronics.

Stapleton's lab has documented through several studies that the metabolites of organophosphate flame retardants are frequently showing up in urine.

When the kids ate only organic fruits, veggies, juice, pasta, cereal and salsa, the levels of several organophosphate pesticides in their bodies plummeted (as measured by urine analysis), scientists reported in 2006 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

«Pyrethroids are obviously a safer alternative to organophosphates, but just because they are safer doesn't mean they are safe,» said Dana Boyd Barr, a research professor of environmental health at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia.

DDVP is an organophosphate, one of a group of pesticides developed after World War II, when researchers discovered that insects» nervous systems were more sensitive to nerve agents than the human nervous system.

The researchers found that a metabolite of one commonly used organophosphate flame retardant, tris (1,3 - dichloro -2-propyl) phosphate (TDCIPP), occurred at levels 15 times higher in 2014 - 2015 samples than in samples from 2002 - 2003.

When it was discovered, it was hailed as an ecologically friendly, natural pesticide free of the dangers posed by potent, but indiscriminate, organophosphate insecticides.

This has followed growing fears about the health effects on farm workers of exposure to organophosphates, also known as OPs.

Organophosphates (OPs), a family of chemicals that includes several pesticides as well as sarin and VX nerve agents, block the activity of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE).

The remaining two pesticides are the organophosphates chlorpyrifos - methyl and malathion.

Some are organophosphates, similar to pesticides that have been banned and are known to harm developing brains.

«Now we should evaluate the efficacy of ultra-low-volume applications of malathion, an organophosphate, in a residential area.»

• 16 % Malathion (organophosphate) One of the earliest organophosphates — introduced in 1950.

Since 1996 the EPA has put partial bans on the use of 28 of the 49 organophosphates registered with the agency.

Chemists at the American Cyanamid Company synthesize the first batch of malathion, one of a new class of organophosphate pesticides.

However, these mosquitoes are also susceptible to organophosphate insecticides.

In the United States, organophosphates are applied to 60 million acres of crops like corn and cotton every year.

And in 2001 the agency began a separate study to track the amount of organophosphates in domestically grown fruits and vegetables that play a large role in children's diets.

Many of the experiments involve so few subjects — as few as six in a test of the organophosphate chlorpyrifos — that the results can't be trusted.

The report is an update, based on new research, to a 2011 assessment of the health impacts of the pesticide chlorpyrifos (pronounced KLOR — pie - ra — phos), which remains one of the most commonly applied organophosphate pesticides.

Those were decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE - 209), the most heavily used PBDE, and to a lesser degree, tris (2 - chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP), an organophosphate flame retardant.

«There's mounting evidence now from epidemiological studies that prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides, and chlorpyrifos in particular, may be associated with detriments with IQ in children,» said Kim Harley, an environmental epidemiologist with the University of California, Berkeley who has studied effects of pesticide exposure on children in California farm towns.

It's one of a group of things called organophosphate, and I didn't realize till I started working on its story, that those actually are chemically related to [the] World - War - II - era nerve agent.

Paul: Well that's certainly one of the risks that's come up with a lot of them, particularly these organophosphates.

Chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate insecticide, a powerful class of pesticide that has toxic effects on nervous systems.

That compound, like nerve agents, is an organophosphate, and the symptoms that afflicted the «Ginger Jake» drinkers — some 30,000 documented cases — are now known as organophosphate - induced delayed neurotoxicity (OPIDN).

Included are organophosphate pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), phthalates and perfluorinated compounds.

To model Gulf War Illness, the researchers treated cultures of human and rat neurons with an organophosphate called diisopropyl flurophosphate, which is an analog of sarin.

Organophosphates can affect a variety of proteins and pathways in cells, and the impacts on microtubules and microtubule - related proteins are likely to be many.

Since the use of organophosphate pesticides is widespread around the world, and growing evidence indicates a link between these pesticides and disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Baas said that a deeper investigation of low - level OP exposure is critical for preventing and treating neurological conditions arising from such exposures, in addition to Gulf War Illness.