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Insecticides put world food supplies at risk, say scientists [1]

The world’s most widely used insecticides have contaminated the environment across the planet so pervasively that global food production is at risk, according to a comprehensive scientific assessme

Publication Date: 
24/06/2014
Guardian (UK) [2]
Tags:
Insecticide [3], Food Supply [4], Chemical Fertilisers [5], Environment [6], Pesticides And Toxins [7], DDT [8]
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