Pets and pesticides: Let's be careful out there

By M.B. Pell and Jillian Olsen

Last June Diane Bromenschenkel applied a flea-and-tick product to her English pointer, Wings, so the dog wouldn’t get ticks while hunting ph

A crawling issue: Head lice treatments worse than the pest itself?

By Jeremy Borden

Parents routinely use dangerous pesticides to treat their children for head lice

Excerpts from this story referencing "headaches":

"… esticides in lice treatments have been involved in conditions ranging from headaches to death. The reports were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.O …"

'Safe' pesticides now first in poisonings

By M.B. Pell and Jim Morris

EPA data shows that the number of reported human health problems increased by about 300 percent over the past decade.

Excerpts from this story referencing "Pyrethrin":

"… thrin and its accompanying impurities, according to the family’s lawsuit.Pyrethrins, extracted from the chrysanthemum plant, and their synthetic relatives,py …"

"… throids. Up to one in five Americans are susceptible to ragweed allergies. Pyrethrins are extracted from chrysanthemum plants and like the plant can trigger al …"

"… aining the compounds, declined to comment. Toxicologist Tom Osimitz of the Pyrethrins Joint Venture, an industry program, said that Pyrethrins and pyrethroids …"

"… ilments.The EPA backed off the labeling requirement after the industry’s Pyrethrin Task Force, composed of manufacturers of Pyrethrin products, conducted a s …"