Organochlorine insecticides used to treat seeds before sowing built up in the bird population and the concentrations in Eurasian Sparrowhawks were enough to kill some outright and incapacitate others ; affected birds laid eggs with fragile shells which broke during incubation.

“ Northern Alabama Colonies of the Endangered Gray Bat Myotis grisescens: Organochlorine Contamination and Mortality .” Biological Conservation 43: 213-225.

“ Northern Alabama Colonies of the Endangered Gray Bat Myotis grisescens: Organochlorine Contamination and Mortality .” Biological Conservation 43: 213-225.

“ Northern Alabama Colonies of the Endangered Gray Bat Myotis grisescens: Organochlorine Contamination and Mortality .” Biological Conservation 43: 213-225.

“ Northern Alabama Colonies of the Endangered Gray Bat Myotis grisescens: Organochlorine Contamination and Mortality .” Biological Conservation 43: 213-225.

On the other hand, other studies indicate the number of consumers concerned about the safety of irradiated food has decreased in the last 10 years and continues to be less than the number of those concerned about pesticide residues, microbiological contamination, and other food related concerns.

The dusts blown on a powerful east-west airstream carry pesticide residues that have been found in the blood of penguins in Antarctica.

Substances found, according to the reports, are naphthol, naphthalene, Sevin, tarry residues, alpha naphthol, mercury, organochlorines, chromium, copper, nickel, lead, hexachlorethane, Hexachlorobutadiene, pesticide HCH ( BHC ), volatile organic compounds and halo-organics.

Compounds from these pesticide residues find themselves in food items with metamidophos, endosulfan, chlorpyrifos and diazinon among the common contaminants.

Mushroom compost may also contain pesticide residues, particularly organochlorides used against the fungus gnat.

The ancient oasis of rivers, lakes, reed marshes, forests and farms are drying up and being poisoned by wind-borne salt as well as fertilizer and pesticide residues from the dried bed of the Aral Sea.

The third type of poisoning is a long-term low-level exposure, which individuals are exposed to from sources such as pesticide residues in food as well as contact with pesticide residues in the air, water, soil, sediment, food materials, plants and animals.

Agricultural wastewater treatment is treatment and disposal of liquid animal waste, pesticide residues etc.

A laboratory was established in 1987 to test meat for pesticide residues.

" His site also states: " What's more, cottonseed oil may contain natural toxins and probably has unacceptably high levels of pesticide residues ( cotton is not classified as a food crop, and farmers use many agrichemicals when growing it )" and this claim has been repeated by other websites.

* Agricultural wastewater treatment – treatment and disposal of liquid animal waste, pesticide residues etc.

Studies have shown that hydrocarbon monoterpenes and thymol in particular degrade rapidly ( DT50 16 days in water, 5 days in soil ) in the environment and are, thus, low risks because of rapid dissipation and low bound residues, supporting the use of thymol as a pesticide agent that offers a safe alternative to other more persistent chemical pesticides that can be dispersed in runoff and produce subsequent contamination.

The Section 409 prohibition applied to many pesticide residues until enactment of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996.

In addition to standards for specific foods, the Codex Alimentarius contains general standards covering matters such as food labeling, food hygiene, food additives and pesticide residues, and procedures for assessing the safety of foods derived from modern biotechnology.

* Agricultural wastewater treatment – treatment and disposal of liquid animal waste, pesticide residues etc.

The Australian Total Diet Survey, formerly known as the Australian Market Basket Survey, is a comprehensive assessment of consumers ' dietary exposure ( intake ) to pesticide residues, contaminants and other substances.

In the United States, the term action level can refer to levels recommended by EPA for enforcement by Food and Drug Administration and USDA when pesticide residues occur in food or feed commodities for reasons other than the direct application of the pesticide.

On his orders, by spring 1942 the camp at Auschwitz had been greatly expanded, including the addition of gas chambers, where victims were killed using the pesticide Zyklon B.

During the crop year 2008, many of the certified organic potatoes produced in the United Kingdom and certified by the Soil Association as organic were sprayed with a copper pesticide to control potato blight ( Phytophthora infestans ).

A total of 36 unique pesticides were detected on potatoes over the 2, 216 samples, though no individual sample contained more than 6 unique pesticide traces, and the average was 1. 29 detectable unique pesticide traces per sample.

The Indian Health Minister said the CSE tests were inaccurate, and said that the government's tests found pesticide levels within India's standards but above EU standards.

A 2006 study done by Cornell researchers, the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy and the Chinese Academy of Science on Bt cotton farming in China found that after seven years these secondary pests that were normally controlled by pesticide had increased, necessitating the use of pesticides at similar levels to non-Bt cotton and causing less profit for farmers because of the extra expense of GM seeds.

The initial introduction of GM cotton proved to be a success in Australia – the yields were equivalent to the non transgenic varieties and the crop used much less pesticide to produce ( 85 % reduction ).

PCBs were also used as plasticizers in paints and cements, stabilizing additives in flexible PVC coatings of electrical wiring and electronic components, pesticide extenders, cutting oils, reactive flame retardants, lubricating oils, hydraulic fluids, and sealants ( for caulking in schools and commercial buildings ), adhesives, wood floor finishes ( such as Fabulon and other products of Halowax in the U. S .), paints, de-dusting agents, water-proofing compounds, casting agents, vacuum pump fluids, fixatives in microscopy, surgical implants, and in carbonless copy (" NCR ") paper.

Affected vultures were initially reported to adopt a drooped neck posture and this was considered a symptom of pesticide poisoning, but subsequent studies suggested that this may be a thermoregulatory response as the posture was seen mainly during hot weather.

* In the US, studies have shown that fruit flies that infest orange groves were becoming resistant to malathion, a pesticide used to kill them.

A South Carolina farmer was cited and fined for pesticide misuse, because he ignored the above directions, and sprayed a blooming cucumber field while bees were foraging on the blossoms, causing a serious bee kill.

These studies were released on the heels of an emergency legal petition by beekeepers and environmental groups, that calls for the ban of the bee-killing pesticide clothianidin.

These, along with the Africanized honeybee and pesticide kills were all important beekeeping issues.

In the US, lindane pesticide products were regulated by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ), while lindane medications are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ).

In all, 63 pesticide compounds: 33 herbicides, 15 insecticides, 6 fungicides, and 9 pesticide degradates were detected in samples collected during storm and nonstorm conditions.

The EPA also determined a chronic RfD for chlorpyrifos exposure based on studies in which animals were administered low doses of the pesticide for two years.

The APLC conducts regular surveys of locust populations and migrations and carries out control of locust outbreaks by means of aerial application of pesticides ; traditionally these were chemicals, but more recently APLC has been a major contributor to the development of a biological pesticide in collaboration with CSIRO and LUBILOSA scientists.

Bald Eagles were also victims of the pesticide use of the 50's and 60's.

Frozen vegetables certified organic by QAI and originating in China that were also tested at the same time were found to be pesticide free.

A March 2012 study conducted in Europe, in which minuscule electronic localization devices were fixed on bees, has shown that, even with very low levels of pesticide in the bee's diet, a high proportion of bees ( more than one third ) suffers form orientation disorder and is unable to come back to the hive.

Some aircraft were equipped with an elongated metal wing called a spreader, with inbuilt channels to direct the flow of dust such as sulfur, used on melons as a pesticide and soil amendment.

He makes clear that a large number of compounds were made, and many of the less potent derivatives reported in the open literature as new organophosphate insecticides, so that the secret chemical weapons program could be disguised as legitimate pesticide research.