South African officials have named the chemical behind the deaths of six children.
Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi said the children from Naledi, Soweto, died of Terbufos ingestion. Terbufos is a chemical used in organophosphate insecticides to control insects and pests on some crops.
Those affected believe they fell sick
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European officials have voted not to renew the approvals of chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl.
Chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl are insecticides to control insect pests on a range of crops. Chlorpyrifos-methyl is also used to treat stored cereal grain.
This past week at a meeting of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food
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The week of July 16 is being celebrated as National Pollinators Week in an effort to bring more awareness to the integral role that pollinators such as bees, birds, and the other flying creatures play in the life cycles of an estimated 75 percent of the world’s crop varieties and
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