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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Neonicotinoid (redirect from Neonicotinoid pesticides)
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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Pest control (section Pesticides)
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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Agrochemical (section Impacts of pesticides)
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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Organic food (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from December 2021)
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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Suicide methods (redirect from Shoot self in head)
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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Soil contamination (redirect from Soil contamination by pesticides)
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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Organic farming (section Pesticides)
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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Farmworker (section In Canada)
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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Agriculture (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
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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