The research work-cum-extension service is part of a comprehensive assessment being done by the National Institute for Health (NIH) of the University of the Philippines (UP) in Manila among vegetable and cut-flower farmers in the Benguet towns of La Trinidad, Itogon, Atok, Mankayan, Kapangan and Buguias. Benguet farmers exposed to pesticides have submitted to physical, medical and blood examination to determine the level of pesticide toxicity in their blood and how it affects their health....

Published May 23, 2007 11:09 am - For pets, spring and summer can mean increased interaction with pesticides, chemicals and other household items that can be harmful. For the family pet, however, spring and summer can mean increased interaction with pesticides, chemicals and other household items that can be potentially harmful. Depending on the amount ingested, the chemicals can rapidly cause vomiting, diarrhea, breathing problems, muscle weakness, seizures and even coma or death. Most...

Little thingies in the whatsit has our columnist pondering the cocktail of chemicals he ingests daily. Where did they come from? my wife asked, in what I thought was an unfairly accusatory tone, as though I made it a practice to smuggle in noxious insects to sow among the pulses. Little thingies in the whatsit has our columnist pondering the cocktail of chemicals he ingests daily. Now, my wife and I, like all married couples, employ a form of telegraphic indeed, virtually telepathic...

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They spray the halls, and elsewhere, with pesticides! I know pesticides are used inside nursing homes, and other senior citizen facilities, which is why I am trying very hard to avoid my parents living in these types of places. We then discovered being poisoned by pesticides made us sensitive or allergic to cleaning compounds, disinfectants and other everyday products; the EPA classifies disinfectants and sanitizers as pesticides, which makes them very toxic. I recently researched housing...

BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhua) -- China's agro-technicans have invented a method of producing methane from the stocks of crops that is more efficient at producing the gas than manure. In the past straw was either burned, used as an industrial material, or fermented into fertilizer and feedstuff, with the utilization ratio of about 30 percent. The technology using fermented wheat and corn stocks is 30 percent more efficient than previous methods of producing methane from straw and 6.8 percent...