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Farmworkers

Guest Blog: The Big Meat Gang Is Getting Awfully Smelly

Posted on September 23, 2020 in Animals, Hygeia's Blog | 629 Views | Leave a response
Guest Blog by Alan Guebert from farmandfoodfile.com Reprinted by permission of the author.  In a year of too many dark days, Monday, Sept. 14 was a particularly dark day for every American for two reasons. First, on Sept. 14, ProPublica, the non-profit, investigatory news group, published a 3,100-word exposé on how global meatpackers used their […]

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Occupational Pesticide Use More Than Doubles Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Hispanics

Posted on January 30, 2019 in Hot Science, Pesticides | 234 Views | Leave a response
A team of epidemiologists studied the impact of occupational exposures to organic solvents, metals, and pesticides among 7,404 Hispanic/Latino workers in four major urban areas, and reported a surprisingly high Odds Ratio of 2.18 (confidence interval of 1.34 to 3.55) for some form of cardiovascular disease, or CVD. For atrial fibrillation (a-fib), one of the […]

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Pesticide Enforcement and Fines in the Trump-Pruitt Era — Amazon Gets Hammered and Syngenta Skates After Poisoning People

Posted on February 16, 2018 in Hygeia's Blog, Pesticides | 1,079 Views | Leave a response
The pesticide enforcement news today is surreal. Reuters reports on February 15, 2018 that Amazon is paying a $1.2 million fine, because a third-party vendor offering pesticides on Amazon slipped in some foreign-made products not registered by the U.S. EPA.  Clearly illegal, clearly a slip up, which Amazon corrected immediately, and forcefully, as clear in […]

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“Not very Toxic” Pesticide Kills 9 Farmers in India

Posted on September 27, 2017 in GMOs, In The News, Pesticides | 1,572 Views | Leave a response
Maharashtra is one of the major cotton growing areas in India. Most of the cotton planted in recent years has expressed the Bt gene to control certain insects, but a combination of factors including resistance has eroded its efficacy. Between higher priced seed and the need to apply extra insecticide, cotton farmers in the region […]

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Children of Farmworkers in North Carolina Heavily Exposed to Pesticides

Posted on December 14, 2016 in Pesticides | 130 Views | Leave a response
Latino farmworkers and their children face the highest levels of pesticide exposure of any population group, with the possible exception of certain types of pesticide applicators.  In 2004 a team of scientists measured the levels of urinary metabolites in 60 farmworker children ages 1 to 6 in North Carolina (Arcury et al., 2007).  The testing […]

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