Prevention is key when it comes to protecting your home from ants, cockroaches, flies, meal moths, mold and rodents. Harmful pesticide sprays, traps, and fogs can almost always be replaced by safer alternatives and common-sense pest management solutions.
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Inert ingredients are often biologically active, yet labeled as inerts under lax regulatory requirements protecting “confidential business information.”
One group of chemicals — endocrine disruptors — can interfere with the functional of the human hormone system, even when exposure levels are extremely low.
Acute toxicity refers to the immediate health effects (within 0-7 days) of exposure to a pesticide. It does not include long-term effects of pesticide exposure such as cancers or reproductive harms, which are often referred to as chronic toxicity.
Welcome to our new and improved PesticideInfo database! The simpler user interface will make it easy to explore the site’s in-depth datasets with targeted searches, while offering useful features and supplemental tools and information.
The PAN International List of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) criteria include acute toxicity, long term health effects, environmental hazards and status under global pesticide-related conventions.
Industrial agriculture treats the farm as a factory, with “inputs” (pesticides, fertilizers) and “outputs” (crops).
Pesticide corporations and their trade associations wield tremendous influence on policymakers, both in the United States and on the international stage.