We can't keep feeding our kids pesticides and herbicides and antibiotics and hormones.

This man, this lunatic farmer, doesn't use any pesticides, herbicides, or genetically modified seeds.

Next, more harmful chemicals are sprayed on fruits and vegetables, like pesticides and herbicides, to kill weeds and bugs.

22. In 1997 and thus far in 1998, the embargo also significantly damaged imports in other sectors related to food production, such as fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides for the cultivation of sugar cane and other crops.

Indohaadde's drug farms are a sophisticated operation involving irrigation systems, fertilizers and herbicides.

Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

The Pesticides Board may also impose additional conditions for the registration of certain pesticides.

CP Pesticides, industrial chemicals

The Board has also gazetted the Pesticides (Highly Toxic Pesticides) Regulations 1996, with the objective of controlling the use of certain highly toxic pesticides, including paraquat.

311. To achieve a reduction in the use of pesticides compulsory training courses for farmers and other users of pesticides have been established.

2. As for the sale of paraquat (para. 62), all pesticides, including paraquat, are regulated under the Pesticides Act 1974.

The system would consider climatic conditions, vegetation, locusts and pesticides.

International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides

159. The second instrument concerns trade in hazardous chemicals and pesticides.

And fertilizers and pesticides are flowing into the bay from the golf course the pesticides killing all the larvae and little animals, fertilizer creating this beautiful plankton bloom and there's your pea soup.

This will consequently lead to reducing reliance on DDT and other pesticides.

And I believe, many scientists believe that pesticides are an important part of that decline.

The indiscriminate use of pesticides also contaminates water resources, directly affecting human communities and livestock.

It is aimed at technicians involved in the management of obsolete pesticides.

The major concern is the elimination of stockpiled POPs such as the organochlorine pesticides and PCBs.

You put together machines and water, and you get landscapes that look like this. And then you get sales that look like this. It's brute force. So what you've been doing in agriculture is you start out with something that's a reasonably natural system. You start taming that natural system. You put a lot of force behind that natural system. You put a whole bunch of pesticides and herbicides behind that natural system, and you end up with systems that look like this.

295. From 1990 1994, pesticides were found to be present in about 10 per cent of the groundwater samples tested and levels of pesticides in about 3 per cent of these samples exceeded the maximum limit residue for groundwater.

And Israeli strawberries, even more 80 percent of the pesticides, especially those aimed against pest mites in strawberries.

I Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

The committee compiled an inventory of all chemicals imported into the country, including pesticides, pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals.

Well, basically, we dam it, we pollute it, we pour in pesticides, weedicides, fungicides.

It ties in with small scale farmers in terms of no pesticides, no fertilizers.

says we have 219 toxic pollutants in our bodies, and this includes preservatives, pesticides and heavy metals like lead and mercury.

for the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

Because of the link with pesticides, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was also involved.

26. Geshurei Industries, a manufacturer of pesticides and fertilizers, was originally located in the Israeli town of Kfar Saba.

Children who work in agriculture often suffer the effects of poisoning from the pesticides used.

20 See The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard and Guidelines to Classification, 2004 (Geneva, World Health Organization, 2005).

From 1998 to 2001, the importation of pesticides of light toxicity (grade IV) (from 64 to 70 ), presenting a lesser health risk, was increased, with a corresponding reduction in the imports of extremely toxic pesticides (from 5 to 3 ).

Toxic chemicals and pesticides remained in the environment for a very long time and were transported long distances through the atmosphere and oceans.

We know from the work of a very large and dynamic working team that, you know, we're finding a lot of different pesticides in the hive, and surprisingly, sometimes the healthiest hives have the most pesticides. And so we discover all these very strange things that we can't begin to understand.

The Convention initially covers 22 pesticides and 5 industrial chemicals, but many more are expected to be added in the future.

(e) A national monitoring system for chemical pollutants in foodstuffs such as nitrates, pesticides and heavy metals is being set up.

One of my favorite facts is that U.S. agriculture uses 1.2 billion pounds of pesticides every year.

While that document may be used as a source of LD50 data for pesticides, its classification system should not be used for purposes of transport classification of, or assignment of packing groups to, pesticides, which should be in accordance with these Recommendations.

The intensification of rice production with inefficient application of pesticides has caused significant damage to agro biodiversity and resulted in environmental pollution.

The activities undertaken included a workshop, a visit to a warehouse containing obsolete pesticides that had been repackaged and an accident simulation.

24. Between 1992 and 1997, the total value of imported pesticides had amounted to more than 82 million in highly competitive conditions.

NOTE LD50 toxicity data for a number of common pesticides may be obtained from the most current edition of the document The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard and Guidelines to Classification available from the International Programme on Chemical Safety, World Health Organization (WHO), 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.