In-home pesticide use has been linked to everything from lung disorders to Parkinson's disease.
There are, for example, 14 pieces of legislation governing pesticide use, under the control of several ministries.
Kemery recommended that parents try other pest-control tactics before resorting to pesticide use in the home or garden.
Among the many possible contributing factors that the report cited are habitat loss, pesticide use, climate change, and introduced pathogens.
Another significant requirement of the bill is a mandatory 72-hour notice to all parents and school staff before pesticide use.
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You know the sorts of things, leaving verges on fields, low pesticide use, perhaps even fallow periods and so on.
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The technology offers significant potential for reducing pesticide use and increasing yields.
Although organic yields averaged 20% less than those from the conventional plots, the input of fertiliser and energy was reduced by between 34% and 53%, and pesticide use by 97%.
Professor Ashford believes the huge rise in pesticide use over the last half century could explain many illnesses, ranging from skin rashes and breathing problems to cancers and birth defects.
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He wants to see an immediate reduction in pesticide use until the effects are better understood, and is pressing for the formation of a European Union environment unit to study the problem.
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In the press release for his article, Benbrook claimed that his was the first peer-reviewed paper to examine changes in pesticide use due to the cultivation of genetically engineered crops in the United States.
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Next-generation GM crops could boost food grown, cut pesticide use, make crops more resistant to droughts like the one that crushed the US corn crop last year, even create crops that fertilize themselves from the air.
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The promise of reducing pesticide use in this country, which uses twice the amount per ton of food as the U.S., is also an emotional issue with the government, which has made cleaning up China's environment a top priority.
"In South Africa we need a single regulatory body which controls pesticide use and sales of products, " says Dr Naidoo, with training by either government or sales people that is focused on the end users and guided by regulation.
The alerted farmers will then increase the number of fly traps, wrap up fruits, or - as last resort - use pesticide.
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This is what raises the health issues that exercise Ma, but Huang says since the crop itself exterminates insects, farmers need to use less pesticide.
The pesticide legislation, which will ban the use of certain toxic chemicals on farms, originated back in July 2006, when the European Commission sent an initial legislative proposal to the European Parliament for a first reading.
Latin American banana growers have begun to use it as an environmentally safe pesticide.
Although such genetic engineering is essentially an extension, or refinement, of techniques that have been around for centuries, it has led to less use of chemical pesticides, a drop in pesticide poisoning of farmers and their families, more environment-friendly agronomic practices and greater profits for farmers.
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Chlorpyrifos, which has since been banned for indoor use, was still commonly used as a residential pesticide when the women were pregnant.
The pesticide DDT was found to be the cause of the problem as its use resulted in a thinning and subsequent cracking of their egg shells.
"The U.S. and many European countries are phasing out this pesticide, and here we are building hundreds of hectares of golf courses which use methyl bromide, " says Flavier.
As noted above, the use of genetic engineering techniques for anything that falls within the regulatory definition of a "pesticide"--even when that definition is tortured to claim jurisdiction--triggers case-by-case review, which is not necessary for small-scale field trials for other pesticides, regardless of risk.
In a statement, pesticide manufacturer Bayer CropScience said the failure to reach agreement showed that there was "no convincing argument against the continuing use of neonicotinoid-based products".
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