Falcon Trading Company, Inc. Issues a Recall on a the Following Organic Black Bean Items, that Contain Pesticide Residue Falcon Trading Company, Inc. of Royal Oaks CA is recalling the three items listed below. Because these items are sold in bulk, the lot numbers can be mixed in the sales bin. Therefore, we are recallin...

California-based Falcon Trading Co. has discovered through routine testing, that the #OrganicBlackBeans purchased via a certified organic handler contained pesticide residue.

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How do we measure decades of #PesticideExposure? Our study links California’s historical Pesticide Use Reporting Data to participant residences via #GIS. 🗺️ This approach is crucial for examining the long-term effects of exposure on key health outcomes, including #CVD risk factors and #BrainHealth. 🧠

Young Children Near Vineyards Face Higher Pesticide Exposure, Study Finds Research shows contamination in urine, dust and air rises sharply during spraying periods, raising concerns for rural families

FYI: Young Children Near Vineyards Face Higher Pesticide Exposure, Study Finds #PesticideExposure #ChildHealth #RuralFamilies #EnvironmentalSafety #VineyardLife

Young Children Near Vineyards Face Higher Pesticide Exposure, Study Finds Research shows contamination in urine, dust and air rises sharply during spraying periods, raising concerns for rural families

Young Children Near Vineyards Face Higher Pesticide Exposure, Study Finds #PesticideExposure #ChildHealth #RuralFamilies #Vineyards #EnvironmentalHealth

Pesticide Exposure in the Womb Leaves Lasting Scars on Children’s Brains All the science news you can handle in a single feed

Pesticide Exposure in the Womb Leaves Lasting Scars on Children’s Brains #Science #HealthandMedicine #InfectiousDiseases #PesticideExposure #ChildDevelopment #Neurodevelopment

The Environmental Impact of a Golf Course Is Sky-High A golf course may resemble a green oasis, but its environmental impact is pretty negative thanks to its use of pesticides, water waste, and more.

Golf is absolutely terrible for the planet. Nobody's going to do anything about it, though, because the courses are owned by the 1% and we all know that 1% are untouchable.

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Have you or someone you love faced cancer after working with or living near sites that use pesticides?

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Logos: The EcotoxBlog, UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Background picture: Bee on flower Text: #JobPostings: PhD Researcher in Landscape-dependent pesticide and other chemical exposure risks on bumble bees at UFZ

The UFZ in Leipzig is looking to fill a position for a PhD in Landscape-dependent pesticide exposure risks on bumble bees 🐝

You can read more about it 👉 rptu.de/s/xquzys

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Pesticides Exacerbate the Threats of Biodiversity Collapse and the Climate Emergency - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, July 7, 2022) A review article published in the International Journal on Environmental Sciences highlights how pervasive pesticide exposure and climate change threaten global species biodiversity. Now more than ever, people are changing their sentiment toward sustainability, with two-thirds of consumers stating the importance of limiting climate change impacts and 88 percent supporting greater pollution reduction. The relationship between climate change and biodiversity—a “distinct but related issue”— is often overlooked in the regulation of the pesticide industry. Climate change and biodiversity loss are interdependent, and an adverse impact on one can bolster adverse effects on the other. Biodiversity is intricate and affects all environmental ecosystems—from oceans and freshwater to forests and soils; it encompasses all life forms on earth. Without biodiversity, food production, energy production, clean water, fertile soil, sustained air quality, and climate will suffer. The globe is currently going through the Holocene Extinction, Earth’s 6th mass extinction, with one million species of plants and animals at risk. With the increasing rate of biodiversity loss, advocates say it is essential for government agencies to hold the pesticide industry accountable for the direct (i.e., excessive agrochemical use) and indirect (i.e., water pollution from run-off) impacts on ecosystems. The review notes, “The enormous use […]

A review article highlights how pervasive #pesticideexposure & #climatechange threaten global species #biodiversity. Without it, #food production, energy production, #cleanwater, fertile #soil, sustained #airquality & #climate will suffer. #pesticides

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Common Fungicide Again Linked to Parkinson’s Disease with Molecular Disruption - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, June 30, 2022) A study by Zhongnan University and Shandong University in China finds that the broad-spectrum fungicide maneb increases Parkinson’s disease (PD) risk and development through alterations in protein and metabolite pathways, resulting in neurotoxicity. Several studies find exposure to chemical toxicants, like pesticides, have neurotoxic effects or exacerbate preexisting chemical damage to the nervous system. Although the mechanism by which pesticides induce disease development remains unclear, this study suggests neurological damage from oxidative stress, cell dysfunction, and synapses impairment, among others, increases the incidence of PD subsequent to pesticide exposure. Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, with at least one million Americans living with PD and about 50,000 new diagnoses annually. The disease affects 50 percent more men than women, and individuals with PD have a variety of symptoms, including loss of muscle control and trembling, anxiety and depression, constipation and urinary difficulties, dementia, and sleep disturbances. Over time, symptoms intensify, but there is no current cure for this fatal disease. While only 10 to 15 percent of PD cases are genetic, PD is quickly becoming the world’s fastest-growing brain disease. Therefore, research like this highlights the need to examine molecular mechanisms involved in altering chemical […]

Study shows broad-spectrum #fungicide #maneb increases #Parkinson’s disease risk and development through alterations in protein and metabolite pathways, resulting in #neurotoxicity. #nervoussystem #health #pesticides #pesticideexposure #PD #brainhealth

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Pesticide Concentration through Metamorphosis Contaminates Birds and Bats - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, April 27, 2022) Pesticides can accumulate in aquatic fly larvae, be retained through metamorphosis, and represent a source of chronic pesticide exposure to birds and bats, according to research published in Environmental Science and Technology earlier this month. As population declines among these critical wildlife continue to mount, findings like these highlight the complex ways in which human activities are further stressing natural systems. Pesticide reviews conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are limited to an outdated set of studies conducted by the pesticide industry, and generally reject and dismiss emerging science from independent literature. This myopic focus on industry studies has brought widespread contamination to the natural world that necessitates wholescale changes at EPA through Congressional action. With widespread acknowledgement that older pesticide chemistries, such as organochlorines like DDT and aldrin, bioconcentrate in living organisms, researchers aimed their study at present use fungicides and herbicides that have not yet undergone similar scrutiny. This includes seven fungicides—azoxystrobin, boscalid, cyflufenamid, fluopyram, tebuconazole, pyrimethanil, and trifloxystrobin—and two herbicides—napropamide and propyzamide. The study notes that formulated end use products, rather than technical grade active ingredients, were used in order to best mimic real world exposure conditions. Larvae of the […]

#Pesticides can accumulate in aquatic fly larvae, be retained thru #metamorphosis & are a source of chronic #pesticideexposure to #birds & #bats; shows complex ways human activities stress natural systems. #pesticides #ecosystems #foodchain #EPA #EPAFail

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Mother’s Exposure to Pesticides during Pregnancy Results in Sleep-Related Problems among Daughters - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, April 20, 2022) A University of Michigan study is the first to highlight that maternal pesticide exposure during pregnancy adversely affects sleeping patterns for offspring later in life, specifically for females. Prenatal development is one of the most vulnerable periods of exposure as the fetus is most susceptible to the harmful effects of chemical contaminants. Many studies indicate that prenatal and early-life exposure to environmental toxicants increases susceptibility to diseases, from learning and developmental disabilities to cancer. However, the toxicity of pesticide exposure ad its full impact on the nonagricultural population in the U.S., especially women. Given research links to sleep-related disorders and neurological and cognitive development, studies like this can help government and health officials identify how pesticides’ impact on the brain elevates health concerns. The authors note, “Overall, these results are of public health importance considering the continued widespread agricultural and possibly residential use of pyrethroids and chlorpyrifos [in Mexico]…Thus, our results underline the importance of additional research studies that include both larger samples and assessment of unregulated pesticides, as well as studies that consider the underlying mechanisms explaining sex differences.” Levels of inadequate sleep patterns are rising among children and adolescents. Reports find variability in sleep duration results in higher rates of depression, anxiety, and […]

#UMich study is first to highlight that #maternal #pesticideexposure during #pregnancy adversely affects #sleeping patterns for #female #offspring later in life. #pesticides #SleepProblems #sleep #prenatalcare #health #pregnancy #chlorpyrifos

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Minnesota Biomonitoring Study Addresses Children's Exposure to Pesticides, Air Pollutants, and Toxic Metals - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, March 9, 2022) In response to local concerns around children’s environmental exposures, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) recently published biomonitoring data collected from young children living in urban and rural areas of the state. The findings provide local residents and lawmakers with baseline data on the hazards children are encountering where they live, learn, or play, and point to ways in which families can reduce or eliminate these dangers. With evidence that early life exposures during “critical windows of vulnerability” increase risk of long-term health problems, it is critical for state agencies to both collect data, and take meaningful action to protect children from future harms. Minnesota lawmakers established a state biomonitoring program in 2007, and have since expanded the project. The current report represents the results of MDH’s Healthy Rural and Urban Kids Project aimed at biomonitoring chemicals in young children. For this round, the agency focused on preschool-aged children living in MN’s rural Becker, Todd, and Wadena counties, as well as those living in urban North Minneapolis. MDH enrolled 232 families during the summer of 2018, provided them with a questionnaire, and tested children for 21 different chemicals in their urine. The chemicals tested were […]

#MNhealth published #biomonitoring data of #kids that show differences in #chemicalexposures between rural and urban #children. #Pesticideexposure also displayed a level of urban/rural divide. #toxicchemicals #pesticides #health #pollution #environment

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