Obsolete Pesticides: Their Environmental and Human Health Hazards

Pesticides and health hazards - Facts and figures

Impact of pesticides use in agriculture: their benefits and hazards

was estimated to be around Rs. 22 billion (USD 0.5 billion), which is about 2% of the total world market. The pattern of pesticide usage in India is different from that for the world in general. As can be seen in Figure 1, in India 76% of the pesticide used is insecticide, as against 44% globally (Mathur, 1999). The use of herbicides and fungicides is correspondingly less heavy. The main use of...

Application of Relational Database in Listing Pesticides Used In Greece According to their Hazards In Human Health and the Environment

Pesticide use raises a number of environmental concerns. Recent EU legislation has been approved banning the use of highly toxic pesticides and measures were agreed to improve the general safety of pesticides across all EU member states including Greece. In addition the problem of illegal and usually hazardous pesticides has to be faced. Nevertheless end-users, farmers and consumers should be i...

Pesticides and Human Health

Animals as sentinels of human health hazards of environmental chemicals.

A workshop titled "Using Sentinel Species Data to Address the Potential Human Health Effects of Chemicals in the Environment," sponsored by the U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research, the National Center for Environmental Assessment of the EPA, and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, was held to consider the use of sentinel and surrogate animal species data for eva...