Sentences with phrase «of endosulfan»

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

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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