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November 10, 2008
HEALTH: Europe’s New Pesticide Regulations Leave America in the Dust
The European Parliament’s environment committee voted last week in favor of new pesticide regulations that make America’s laws look a little, well, wimpy. The European package cracks down on chemicals that pose a risk to human health or the environment, setting strict guidelines that could result in bans on a large number of common agricultural products — up to 10 percent of insecticides, 10 percent of herbicides, and 32 percent of fungicides, according to estimates from the U.K.’s Pesticide Safety Directorate. The committee vote serves as a recommendation to the whole parliament, which will consider the proposal in January. Read more
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September 30, 2008
ENVIRONMENT: Dangerous Disease, Dangerous Remedy
On the night of September 10, low-flying planes blanketed parts of Nassau County, New York, in a fine mist of Scourge, a mosquito-killing pesticide containing the pyrethroid resmethrin. It was the first time in a decade that concerns over West Nile virus prompted the county to conduct aerial spraying. The problem, though, as any good horror movie fan will tell you, is that the treatment may present more problems than the virus itself. Read more
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