Girl Scout cookies are accused of containing toxins. Here's why they're still safe to eat
A child would need to eat 9,000 cookies in a day to approach harmful levels of pesticide or naturally occurring heavy metals.
EWN Sport4h
SAHRC lobbies Parliament for immediate ban on harmful pesticides, including Terbufos
Terbufos has been linked to the deaths of some children following a string of food contamination cases in parts of the ...
Mongabay on MSN3h
Petition calls on EPA to tighten pesticide rules to protect bees
By Bobby Bascomb Insect conservation NGO the Xerces Society recently petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ...
Trinidad Express Newspapers16h
Securing our future, one seed at a time
In the Caribbean, the issue of food security and sovereignty looms, especially as we have seen the effects of a crisis like a ...
ConsumerAffairs19h
EPA should ban pesticide chlorpyrifos on more crops, 9 attorney generals say
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos on more crops because it is linked to ...
Inside Climate News8h
Consumerism—and the Chemicals in All of Our Stuff—Is Thwarting the Transition From Fossil Fuels
Climate change mitigation strategies that don’t address overconsumption and reduce dependence on fossil fuel-derived ...
Micro-nano plastics Make Other Pollutants More Dangerous to Plants and Intestinal Cells
Rutgers Health researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides ...
Delishably on MSN17h
RFK Jr. Exposes Alarming Fact: U.S. Agriculture Relies on Chemical Outlawed in 44 Countries
It's disheartening to learn that the chemical Atrazine, which has been outlawed in Europe since 2004 and in other countries ...