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Pesticides And Toxins

Global report on the status of legal limits on lead in paint

Exposure to lead paint poses significant harmful effects to human health, especially among children. The health effects, which are generally irreversible, can have a lifelong impact.

Publication Date: 
23/05/2016
UNEP
Tags:
Lead, Paint, Paint And Dye Industry, Health Effects, Children, India, Global
Pesticides And Toxins

UN/WHO panel in conflict of interest row over glyphosate cancer risk

A UN panel that on Tuesday ruled that glyphosate was probably not carcinogenic to humans has now become embroiled in a bitter row about potential conflicts of interests.

Publication Date: 
18/05/2016
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Pesticides And Toxins, WHO, Chemical Fertilisers, Monsanto, Cancer, Health Effects, FAO
Pesticides And Toxins

Bisphenol A and adiposity in an inner-city birth cohort

Early life exposure to the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA) may contribute to development of obesity. Prospective evidence in humans on this topic is limited. Researchers examined prenatal and early childhood BPA exposures in relation to childhood measures of adiposity in the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) New York City birth cohort.

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Publication Date: 
17/05/2016
Lori A. Hoepner, Robin M. Whyatt, Elizabeth M. Widen & et al
Environmental Health Perspectives
1-31
Tags:
Toxins, Health Effects, Obesity, Child Health, New York, United States Of America (US), Plastics, Maternal Health
Pesticides And Toxins

Guidelines on highly hazardous pesticides

FAO and WHO have released new guidelines aimed at reducing the damage done by pesticides that pose especially high toxic risks to human health and the environment.

Publication Date: 
10/05/2016
FAO
Tags:
Pesticides, Pesticide Use, Health Effects, Environment, Pesticide Residues, Farmers, Integrated pest management -1 (IPM)
Pesticides And Toxins

Association of environmental toxins with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Persistent environmental pollutants may represent a modifiable risk factor involved in the gene-time-environment hypothesis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The objective of the study was to evaluate the association of occupational exposures and environmental toxins on the odds of developing ALS in Michigan.

Publication Date: 
09/05/2016
Feng-Chiao Su, Stephen A. Goutman, Sergey Chernyak & et al
JAMA Neurology
Tags:
Pesticides, Health Effects, Toxins, United States Of America (US), PCBs, Occupational Health, Neurology
Pesticides And Toxins

Two of the world's top three insecticides harm bumblebees – study

Two of the world’s most widely used insecticides cause significant harm to bumblebee colonies, a new study has found, but a third had no effect.

Publication Date: 
29/04/2016
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Pesticides And Toxins, Insecticide, Bees, European Union (EU), United Kingdom (UK)
Pesticides And Toxins

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Adverse Effect of Insecticides, 26/04/2016

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Adverse Effect of Insecticides, 26/04/2016. The Central Government monitors pesticides residues in various agricultural commodities etc. under the central scheme “Monitoring of Pesticides Residues at National Level” (MPRNL). The annual report of MPRNL for 2014-15 shows that 2.6 % of all samples of commodities contained pesticide residues above the Maximum Residues Limits (MRLs) fixed by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India.

Publication Date: 
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Insecticide, Pesticide Residues, Agriculture, Maximum Residue Level (MRL), India, Statistics, Parliament, Insecticides Act 1968
Pesticides And Toxins

Europe bans two endocrine-disrupting weedkillers

The European commission has ordered a ground-breaking moratorium on two endocrine-disrupting weedkillers that have been linked to thyroid cancer, infertility, reproductive problems and foetal malfo

Publication Date: 
19/04/2016
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Pesticides And Toxins, Pesticides, European Union (EU), Health Effects, Cancer, Herbicide
Pesticides And Toxins

Regulation on Lead contents in Household and Decorative Paints Rules, 2016

The following draft of certain rules to regulate the manufacture, trade, use, import and export of lead contents in household and decorative paints which the Central Government proposes to make in exercise of its powers under subsection (1) of section 3 and clause (d) of sub-section (2) of section 6 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29

Publication Date: 
08/04/2016
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Tags:
Lead, Paint, India, Industry, Trade, Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
Pesticides And Toxins

Diabetes prevalence in relation to serum concentrations of Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Congener Groups and three chlorinated pesticides in a Native American population

Exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is known to increase risk of diabetes. The objective of the study was to determine which POPs are most associated with prevalence of diabetes in 601 Akwesasne Native Americans.

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Publication Date: 
01/04/2016
Zafar Aminov, Richard Haase, Robert Rej & et al
Environmental Health Perspectives
1-37
Tags:
Diabetes, POPs, Health Effects, PCBs, Industrial Pollution, River Pollution, Food Contamination, United States Of America (US), Pesticides, Pesticide Use

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