http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=8024 News on pesticide science, policy and activism Thu, 16 May 2013 16:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=8024#comment-155278 Carr Sat, 08 Sep 2012 02:09:39 +0000 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=8024#comment-155278 The Dept of Ag cannot be given a blank check to apply these pesticides all over the state. What about the people and species who will be impacted by this? Where is the tracking mechanism for environmental impacts? (a method that I do not like because it forces people to endure toxic assaults). These pheromones are about as natural as nutrasweet and synthetic pyrethroids. If I hear one more pesticide industry hack claim that permethrin and its ilk are derived from the chrysanthemum plant, I will slap them with a libel and slander suit. Manufactured pyrethrins are highly toxic and significantly differ from their natural pyrethrum counterparts in key biological respects, especially when you factor in the synergists, like PBO.

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