Sentences with phrase «pesticides at concentrations»
These pet products can expose adults and children to toxic pesticides at concentrations that exceed by 500 times — 50,000 percent — the safe levels established by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The concentration of another pesticide (thiophanate methyl — TPM) that is related to (and degrades down to) MBC is permitted in apples and bananas at 2.0 ppm (that's «M» for «million») and in Apricots at a whopping 15 ppm.
Pregnant female lab mice received the brew in their drinking water at four concentrations, from 400 parts per million (ppm) down to less than 0.04 ppm — equivalent to one drop of pesticide in 500 bathtubs of water, Porter says.
IN 1957, I invented a device that can sniff out poisonous pesticides and ozone - eating compounds at concentrations of just one part per trillion.
«We were very surprised that so many pesticides inhibited ALDH and at quite low concentrations, concentrations that were way below what was needed for the pesticides to do their job,» Bronstein said.
Researchers discover that a combination of pesticides at low concentrations can detrimentally affect human mesenchymal stem cells
When scientists at the University of Delhi in India took soil samples from a pesticide dump and compared them with samples from a cleaner control site, they reported that the soil from the waste site contained a higher concentration of gene sequences from certain bacterial groups, such as Pseudomonas, Novosphingobium and Sphingomonas, that are known to degrade common pesticides like hexachlorocyclohexane.
By Anna V. Smith, Eugene Weekly The latest in a number of recent studies looking at the impact of neonicotinoid pesticides has shown declining bird populations in areas where the pesticides are used in high concentrations.
I learned a long time ago that spices were at the top of the list of foods we should choose to eat organic because of their high concentration of pesticides.
The Wall Street Journal has brought to light examples like pesticides produced with the solvent dimethylformamide, suspected of harming unborn children in the womb, at concentrations as high as 30 %.