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• Hundreds of chemicals, many in consumer products, could increase breast cancer risk
  

  Every day, people are exposed to a variety of synthetic chemicals through the products they use or the food they eat. For many of these chemicals, the health effects are unknown. Now a new study shows that several hundred common chemicals, including pesticides, ingredients in consumer products, food more

• Tailor-made enzymes for chemical toxins?
  

  Bacteria from an Indian landfill could help eliminate contaminated chemicals. The focus is on pesticides or brominated flame retardants, which accumulate in nature and in food chains. Researchers at Empa and Eawag used these bacteria to generate enzymes that can break down these dangerous chemicals. more

• 22 hazardous chemicals added to EU regulation on imports and exports
  

  Exporters of the substances now have to notify their designated national authority before exporting them. In most cases, consent from the importing country is also needed. In addition, exports from the EU of a series of mercury-containing articles, such as fluorescent lamps, have also been banned. 1 more

Videos Pesticides

Chemical Exposures and the Brain: The Flint Water Crisis and More

The water crisis gripping Flint, Michigan has exposed thousands of children to unsafe lead levels, triggering a federal emergency declaration and national conversation about basic public health protections. Lead can be toxic to the brain, and children can be particularly vulnerable. However, the ... more

Detecting nerve agents with the touch of a finger

There’s a reason why farmers wear protective gear when applying organophosphate pesticides. The substances are nerve agents that are very effective at getting rid of unwanted bugs, but they can also make humans sick. Even more potent, related compounds -- organophophate nerve agents -- are deadl ... more

Publications Pesticides

• Emerging Investigator Series: Sunlight Photolysis of 2,4-D Herbicides in Systems Simulating Leaf Surfaces

  Pesticides are commonly applied on foliage, forming dry deposits on the leaf cuticular wax. However, their photochemical transformation in this lipophilic environment is much less understood compared with that in surface water. In this work, sunlight photolysis of six chlorinated phenoxyacetic acid more

• Fast determination of neonicotinoid insecticides in beeswax by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry using an enhanced matrix removal-lipid sorb ...

  Publication date: November 2018 Source:Microchemical Journal, Volume 142 Author(s): Silvia Valverde, Ana María Ares, José Luis Bernal, María Jesús Nozal, José Bernal This study is concerned with the development of a simple, rapid analytical method for simultaneously determining seven more

• Casualties of human-wildlife conflict

  In their Letter “Pesticides thwart condor conservation” (11 May, p. [612][1]), P. A. E. Alarcón and S. A. Lambertucci advocate a ban on carbofuran use in developing countries to prevent wildlife poisoning [e.g., ([ 1 ][2])]. We agree that pesticides should be restricted. However, pesticide bans more