The EPA released its plan on Tuesday, nearly a week after a ProPublica investigation revealed the agency had laid out a justification for increasing the amount of acephate allowed on food by ...

The purpose of the study was two-fold: (1) to determine the extent of acephate residue on the hands of harvesters, and (2) to determine the amount of acephate that was removed from the hands after ...

Acephate is crucial for protecting crops like cotton, soybeans, and peanuts from pests, as well as for other non-agricultural uses like tree injections and ant mound treatments. Read: Sen.

(Beyond Pesticides, July 8, 2024) Please submit comments by Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Acephate, an insecticide and member of the highly toxic organophosphate (OP) family, is so toxic that EPA is ...

Exposure to the organophosphate insecticide acephate and its degradate methamidophos in drinking water poses health risks, the US Environmental Protection agency concludes in a revised human ...

For example, 4% of green beans tested positive for acephate or methamidophos, a breakdown product of acephate. Farmers and growers have been prohibited from using acephate on their green beans ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 8, 2024) In an unexpected turnaround, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced at the end of April a Proposed Interim Decision (PID) to discontinue all but one ...

we have developed a highly sensitive analytical method to quantify urine-specific urinary biomarkers of the organophosphorus pesticides acephate, methamidophos, omethoate, dimethoate, and two ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ckfb62/china_acephate) has announced the addition of the "China Acephate ...

Research conducted by Kenya Organic Agriculture Network found excess levels of acephate, amongst other highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs), in tomato samples from Kirinyaga County. Acephate is an ...