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1080: Five people treated after inhaling fumes in Christchurch chemical spill
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Molecular structure of highly toxic Sodium fluoroacetate (known as 1080). For more info, albeit outdated, click here Five people have been injured after inhaling fumes from a serious chemical spill at a transport yard in an industrial Christchurch suburb. Emergency services were called to the Owens Transport yard in Baigent […]
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1080: Pest control company pleads guilty after chemical poisoning leaves man in coma
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Molecular structure of highly toxic Sodium fluoroacetate (known as 1080). For more info, albeit outdated, click here Stacy Squires/Stuff Firefighters decontaminate ESR investigators testing the Bromley site in June 2019 after a serious incident left a worked in an induced coma a month earlier. A pest control company’s worker ended […]
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Flumethrin: EPA Seeks Comments on Petition Filed to Cancel Seresto Registration
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Some old info from our site on Flumethrin Structural formula: On July 12, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in the Federal Register a notice of availability of a petition filed on April 8, 2021, by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) requesting that EPA cancel Elanco US […]
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Cryolite: In a photo story set to a soundtrack, a photographer journeys through the site of ecological disaster
Artist Lena Tsibizova is a maverick by nature. Having lived most of her life in Moscow, she often feels confined to the boundaries of the city: enormous as it is, its streets bear too many personal reminders to allow for unbiased wandering. In an urge to escape, she headed to Kuvandyk, a decaying industrial town […]
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Flumethrin + Imidacloprid: EPA Seeking Public Comment on Petition Related to Seresto Pet Collars
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Some old info from our site on Flumethrin Structural formula: As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) work to address concerns raised about pet collars, the agency is asking for public comment on a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity requesting that the agency cancel the registration […]
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Fipronil: Accused in Belgium’s biggest-ever food fraud trial sentenced
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Info on Fipronil; Structural formula of Fipronil: Pest control is a major problem on battery farms. © Farm Sanctuary Two men and one woman accused of being at the basis of Belgium’s biggest-ever food fraud have been sentenced by a court in Antwerp. The three were among seven accused and […]
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New Zealand treats animals inhumanely – but it could become a world leader in their rights
Our country has already set examples on issues like women’s suffrage and anti-nuclear policy. It can do the same again New Zealand is too reliant on animal agriculture, an industry which is exploitative and can have devastating consequences for the environment, argues Philip McKibbin, Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images Excerpt: … Our broken economic model is […]
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Flupyradifurone; Pesticide Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions. Final Rule
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Structural formula for Flupyradifurone Insecticide; CAS No. 951659-40-8 August 2014 Human Health Risk Assessment August 2016 Human Health Risk Assessment SUMMARY: This regulation establishes time-limited tolerances for residues of the insecticide flupyradifurone including its degradates and metabolites in or on sugarcane, cane and sugarcane, molasses. This action is associated with […]
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Growing Atmospheric Emissions of Sulfuryl Fluoride
See FAN’s background on Sulfuryl fluoride Abstract The potent greenhouse gas sulfuryl fluoride (SO2F2) is increasingly used as a fumigant, replacing methyl bromide, whose structural and soil fumigation uses have been phased out under the Montreal Protocol. We use measurements on archived air samples and in situ observations from the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment […]
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NJ Legal Notice Treatments for control of nuisance aquatic vegetation in May
Flumioxazin Herbicide CAS No. 103361-09-7 Florpyrauxifen-benzyl Herbicide CAS No. 1390661-72-9 LEGAL NOTICE Treatments for control of nuisance aquatic vegetation may be conducted at the following lakes, ponds, or wetlands areas in the noted COUNTY: Municipality – Lake or Wetland Site, between 05/01/21-05/31/21. CAPE MAY: Cape May Point- Lake Lily, Cape May State Park ad TNC […]
United States, New Jersey Pesticides
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