• The use of pesticides in Canada is regulated by the Pest Management Regulatory Agency, a division of Health Canada via the Pest Control Products Act ...
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    availability of pesticides in stores puts retail workers at risk for exposure and illness when they handle pesticide products. The ubiquity of pesticides puts emergency...
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    50% of all pesticide use globally. Most pesticides are used as plant protection products (also known as crop protection products), which in general protect...
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    environmental effects of pesticides describe the broad series of consequences of using pesticides. The unintended consequences of pesticides is one of the main...
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  • Canada Pesticides in New Zealand Pesticides in the United States Pesticide misuse Pesticide poisoning Pesticide residue Pesticide research Pesticide resistance...
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    Museum Canada portal Canadian Agricultural Safety Association Canadian Census of Agriculture History of agriculture in Canada Pesticides in Canada "Welcome...
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  • buzz about pesticides". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2012.11626. S2CIDĀ 208530336. Osborne JL (November 2012). "Ecology: Bumblebees and pesticides". Nature...
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    loss was 13%, even though more pesticides were being used. Over 500 species of pests have evolved a resistance to a pesticide. Other sources estimate the...
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  • of certain pesticides. The Government of India has proposed further restrictions on the usage of 27 pesticides which are already banned in other countries...
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    application of pesticides may be detrimental in the longer term.[unreliable source?][failed verification] The efficacy of chemical pesticides tends to diminish...
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    Health effects of pesticides may be acute or delayed in those who are exposed. Acute effects can include pesticide poisoning, which may be a medical emergency...
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  • Pesticide residue refers to the pesticides that may remain on or in food, after they are applied to food crops. The maximum allowable levels of these...
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    pesticides and industrial chemicals, in favor of naturally occurring chemicals. In most of the cases, agrochemicals refer to pesticides. Pesticides Insecticides...
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    effects of certain pesticides on children's cognitive development at current levels of exposure. Many pesticides show neurotoxicity in laboratory animal...
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  • result of banning these pesticides. In Korea, banning a single pesticide, paraquat, halved the number of suicides by pesticide poisoning and reduced the...
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    ecoenv.2012.08.004. PMIDĀ 22921257. MedlinePlus Encyclopedia: Pesticides Jacobs, Dorian. "Pesticides" (PDF). American College of Medical Toxicology. MedlinePlus...
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  • divided into six distinct programs: Canada Vigilance Program Controlled Substances Program Inspectorate Program Pesticide Compliance Program Product Safety...
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    leadership role in the campaign to ban lawn and garden pesticides across Ontario. Pesticides in Canada Health effects of pesticides Get tougher on toxic...
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  • Choices: Climate Change in Canada Interprovincial Cooperatives v. The Queen Pesticides in Canada Sustainable Development Strategy in Canada Environmental policy...
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    The 2019 Canadian federal election was held on October 21, 2019. Members of the House of Commons were elected to the 43rd Canadian Parliament. In keeping...
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  • development in the 1940s, multiple chemical pesticides with different uses and modes of action have been employed. Pesticides are applied over large areas in agriculture...
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  • responsible for monitoring pesticide residues in food. Health Canada establishes Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) for pesticide residues in all foods. MRLs are...
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    minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing health-focused government agencies including Health Canada and the Public Health...
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  • transport in bulk. Similar advances occurred in chemical pesticides in the 1940s, leading to the decade being referred to as the "pesticide era". These...
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  • Restricted use pesticide, pesticides not available to the general public in the US Rup dialects of the Bulgarian language Rup Magon, Indian-Canadian musician...
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    of pesticides and for safe working conditions for farmworkers, pest control applicators, and other persons handling, storing or applying pesticides, or...
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    farm workers engaged in pesticide spraying with a control group of 21 workers not exposed to pesticides, from the Nextipac community in Jalisco, Mexico. The...
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  • Silent Spring (category Pesticides)
    other pesticides mixed with fuel oil and included the spraying of private land, prompted Carson to devote her research, and her next book, to pesticides and...
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  • Pest Management Regulatory Agency (category Pesticide regulation)
    measures are put in place with more hazardous pesticides. Toxicological evaluations identify the possible human health effects of pesticides and establish...
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    estimated in 1992 that three million pesticide poisonings occur annually, causing 220,000 deaths. Pesticides select for pesticide resistance in the pest...
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