Here is small ppt on pesticide safety
I am seeing a weakness in training workers on handling pesticides.
I try to avoid food where the pesticide is sprayed directly on the part you are eating.
Thank Rachel Allshiny for the work on this.
classifications of pesticides,purchase and storage of pesticides,measuring and mixing of pesticides,Pesticide Use in the Field,Symptoms of Pesticide Poisoning...
The IRAC Mode of Action (MoA) classification provides growers, advisors, extension staff, consultants and crop protection professionals with a guide to the selection of acaricides or insecticides for use in an effective and sustainable acaricide or insecticide resistance management (IRM) strategy.
Rules for inclusion of a compound in the MoA list
Names To be included in the active list, compounds must have, or be very close to having, a minimum of one registered use in at least one country.
when more than one active ingredient in that chemical sub-group is registered for use, the chemical sub-group name is used.
when only one active ingredient is registered for use, the name of that exemplifying active ingredient may be use
classifications of pesticides,purchase and storage of pesticides,measuring and mixing of pesticides,Pesticide Use in the Field,Symptoms of Pesticide Poisoning...
The IRAC Mode of Action (MoA) classification provides growers, advisors, extension staff, consultants and crop protection professionals with a guide to the selection of acaricides or insecticides for use in an effective and sustainable acaricide or insecticide resistance management (IRM) strategy.
Rules for inclusion of a compound in the MoA list
Names To be included in the active list, compounds must have, or be very close to having, a minimum of one registered use in at least one country.
when more than one active ingredient in that chemical sub-group is registered for use, the chemical sub-group name is used.
when only one active ingredient is registered for use, the name of that exemplifying active ingredient may be use
“Integrated pest management (IPM) is a strategy that draws on a range of management tools with the goal of using the least ecologically disruptive techniques to manage pests within economically acceptable levels.”
Pesticide application refers to the practical way in which pesticides, (including herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, or nematode control agents) are delivered to their biological targets (e.g. pest organism, crop or other plant).
Labelling of irradiated food and organic foodHanu Pratap
Brief introduction of irradiated food and how the labelling process is done.It also introduce organic product with labels.It also include FSSAI regulation for these both product.
“Integrated pest management (IPM) is a strategy that draws on a range of management tools with the goal of using the least ecologically disruptive techniques to manage pests within economically acceptable levels.”
Pesticide application refers to the practical way in which pesticides, (including herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, or nematode control agents) are delivered to their biological targets (e.g. pest organism, crop or other plant).
Labelling of irradiated food and organic foodHanu Pratap
Brief introduction of irradiated food and how the labelling process is done.It also introduce organic product with labels.It also include FSSAI regulation for these both product.
7aConsidering the Hazards of pesticides and its Direct impact on h.pdfankkitextailes
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Considering the Hazards of pesticides and its Direct impact on humans there will be increased in
demand on complete elimination of use of synthetic pesticides.
Hazards of pesticides: If the credits of pesticides include enhanced economic potential in terms
of increased production of food and fiber, and amelioration of vector-borne diseases, then their
debits have resulted in serious health implications to man and his environment. There is now
overwhelming evidence that some of these chemicals do pose a potential risk to humans and
other life forms and unwanted side effects to the environment. No segment of the population is
completely protected against exposure to pesticides and the potentially serious health effects,
though a disproportionate burden, is shouldered by the people of developing countries and by
high risk groups in each country. The world-wide deaths and chronic diseases due to pesticide
poisoning number about 1 million per year.
The high risk groups exposed to pesticides include production workers, formulators, sprayers,
mixers, loaders and agricultural farm workers. During manufacture and formulation, the
possibility of hazards may be higher because the processes involved are not risk free. In
industrial settings, workers are at increased risk since they handle various toxic chemicals
including pesticides, raw materials, toxic solvents and inert carriers.
Eliminating pesticides
Many alternatives are available to reduce the effects pesticides have on the environment.
Alternatives include manual removal, applying heat, covering weeds with plastic, placing traps
and lures, removing pest breeding sites, maintaining healthy soils that breed healthy, more
resistant plants, cropping native species that are naturally more resistant to native pests and
supporting biocontrol agents such as birds and other pest predators. In the United States,
conventional pesticide use peaked in 1979, and by 2007, had been reduced by 25 percent from
the 1979 peak level, while US agricultural output increased by 43 percent over the same period.
Biological controls such as resistant plant varieties and the use of pheromones, have been
successful and at times permanently resolve a pest problem.Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
employs chemical use only when other alternatives are ineffective. IPM causes less harm to
humans and the environment. The focus is broader than on a specific pest, considering a range of
pest control alternatives. Biotechnology can also be an innovative way to control pests. Strains
can be genetically modified (GM) to increase their resistance to pests. However the same
techniques can be used to increase pesticide resistance and was employed by Monsanto to create
glyphosate-resistant strains of major crops. In 2010, 70% of all the corn that was planted was
resistant to glyphosate; 78% of cotton, and 93% of all soybeans
7b
According to an organic food advocacy group, the Environmental Working Group, buying
certain organic food can .
Pesticides are important input to modern agriculture and also used in public health in controlling communicable disease.
The toxicity of these compounds poses risk to human health, environment and to the organisms which may not be targeted by pesticides.
The effect of pesticides and their mobility depend upon their chemical and physical properties, soil characteristics, groundwater infiltrations and vadose zone behaviour, vegetation and local weather conditions. They resist degradation by chemical, physical or biological means.
“There is no sort of lower standard or different standard used for pesticide products,” says Angus Cameron, a former manager of the firm Inveresk Research International in Scotland, where many of the human tests have been conducted.
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CHAPTER 2: THE PESTICIDE CONTROVERSY
What is the pesticide controversy?
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Fearful the British would poison him, Hitler made sure to only eat food after it was eaten by Margot
and fourteen other girls serving as his official tasters.22 Hitler may have been evil but he was not
stupid. He knew that poisons affect people differently, and knew that any food which harmed one
girl might harm him (then pity what would happen to the cook!).
Every year we spray something akin to poison on our food, and use something akin to H
system of making sure we are not harmed. The motives are polar opposites Hitler cared only for
the preservation of his person, while we seek the safety of all humans. Whether they are synthetic
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three types of pests: insects, weeds, and pathogens (e.g., fungi and viruses). At some level they could
poison us also. Many contain carcinogens, cause neurological disorders, and the like. Yet, our food
seems safe to most people, and since 1992 cancer incidence rates have even fallen or remained the
same,23 cancer death rates have fallen,24 and life expectancy in the U.S. has been steadily increasing.25
Can we be absolutely sure pesticides are used safely? Not entirely, but like Hitler (and according to
movies, every Roman emperor, Catholic Pope, and Medieval king) we employ testers not in the
form of humans, but animals. All pesticides must be approved by the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), where the pesticide under consideration is given to laboratory animals at different
levels. The animals a time and used to gauge the threats to human health a
pesticide may pose. The EPA then determines whether the pesticide should be allowed, and if it is,
the specific instructions on how it should be applied.
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on animals will cause us to harm humans a notion in which 90% of toxicologists agree.26 Pesticides
decrease the cost of food, and make fruits and vegetables more affordable. Raise the price of these
healthy foods and cancer rates and other health problems in humans will rise.27 Help the lab animals,
and you harm some humans. Modern, democratic societies must make a tradeoff between harm to
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the overall harm to animals and humans as low as possible.
Hitler was willing to sacrifice fifteen girls to save himself. The modern world is willing to sacrifice a
small number of laboratory animals to protect millions of humans. Moreover, the EPA continues to
find ways to reduce testing on animals without sacrificing food safety, like recent developments in
molecular and computational sciences, which can sometimes be substituted for animal
experimentation.28
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a Mostly Organic Diet? a enter on pesticides. It featured one person who answered .
Pesticides have been linked to a number of health problems, including neurologic and endocrine (hormone) system disorders, birth defects, cancer, and other diseases.
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it briefly describes about the current scenario and impact of pesticides . how much damage it has caused , where India stands in all of these. at the end it will also suggest about some alternatives and technologies that can replace these harmful chemicals.
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2. Pesticides
Pesticides are used to control various pests and
disease carriers, such as mosquitoes, ticks, rats
and mice. Pesticides are used in agriculture to
control weeds, insect infestation and diseases.
Highly hazardous pesticides may have acute
and/or chronic toxic effects, and pose
particular risk to children. Their widespread use
has caused health problems and fatalities in
many parts of the world, often as a result of
occupational exposure and accidental or
intentional poisonings.
Environmental contamination can result in
human exposure through consumption of
residues of pesticides in food and drinking
water.
3. Types of Pesticides
Types of pesticides include:
Algaecides to kill and/or slowing the growth of algae.
Antimicrobials to control germs and microbes such as
bacteria and viruses.
Disinfectants to control germs and microbes such as
bacteria and viruses.
Fungicides to control fungal problems like molds, mildew,
and rust.
Herbicides to kill or inhibit the growth of unwanted plants,
also known as weeds.
Insecticides to control insects.
Insect Growth Regulators to disrupt the growth and
reproduction of insects.
Rodenticides to kills rodents like mice, rats, and gophers.
Wood Preservatives to make wood resistant to insects,
fungus and other pests.
4. Food Quality Protection Act
The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) was passed unanimously by
Congress and then signed into law by President Clinton on August 3,
1996. The FQPA requires that the EPA:
make a safety finding when setting tolerances, i.e., that the
pesticide can be used with “a reasonable certainty of no harm;”
use this new safety standard to reassess, over a 10-year period, all
pesticide tolerances that were in place when the FQPA was
signed;
consider the special susceptibility of children to pesticides by using
an additional tenfold (10X) safety factor when setting and
reassessing tolerances unless adequate data are available to
support a different factor;
consider aggregate risk from exposure to a pesticide from multiple
sources (food, water, residential and other non-occupational
sources) when assessing tolerances; and
consider cumulative exposure to pesticides that have common
mechanisms of toxicity.
5. Pesticide Risks
The risk of a pesticide depends on two things, exposure
(how much?) and toxicity (how poisonous?):
The exposure is the amount you get in or on your
body, or the amount that is released into the
environment.
The toxicity of a pesticide is measure of how
poisonous it is to people or the environment.
Even products that are low in toxicity can be hazardous
if the exposure is high enough.
Most pesticides will have either the word CAUTION,
WARNING, or DANGER on the label, and that signal
word reflects the toxicity of the product:
CAUTION represents the lower toxicity products
WARNING indicates medium toxicity products
DANGER stands for the highest toxicity products
6. Minimizing Pesticide Risks
Adopt an Integrated Pest Management
(IPM) approach: prevention,
sanitation and exclusion, and utilizing
pesticides only as a last resort when
other options have failed.
Choose the product lowest in toxicity.
Choose products with formulations least
likely to lead to exposure.
Use PPE to reduce your exposure.
Use the appropriate amount of pesticide
for your job.
Avoid allowing children, pets, or
sensitive people in treatment areas.
7. Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a
combination of common sense and
scientific principles. It's a way of thinking
about pest management that values:
Using knowledge about the pest's habits,
life cycle, needs and dislikes;
Using the least toxic methods first, up to
and including pesticides;
Monitoring the pest's activity and
adjusting methods over time;
Tolerating harmless pests; and
Setting a threshold to decide when it's
time to act.
8. Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
These actions are important parts of any IPM
endeavor:
Identify the pest in the most specific terms
possible.
Learn about the pest's biology (habits, life cycle,
needs and dislikes).
Take steps to exclude the pest from the area, if
possible.
Try to remove the pest's food, water and shelter.
Determine the pest's travel patterns and find their
home-base.
Identify all of your control options (the "tools in the
toolbox") before acting.
9. Aldicarb
In 2010 the EPA targeted aldicarb, known for
causing the worst outbreak of pesticide
poisoning in North America, to be phased out
of use in all world markets by 2015.
“Aldicarb no longer meets our rigorous food
safety standards and may pose unacceptable
dietary risks, especially to infants and young
children,” the EPA said.
For infants, consumption of aldicarb residue –
mostly in potatoes, citrus and water – can
reach 800 percent higher than the EPA’s level
of concern for health effects, while children
between the ages of one and five can ingest
300 percent more than the level of concern.
10. Aldicarb
On the Fourth of July in 1985, three people who had
eaten watermelon in Oakland, Calif., rapidly became
ill with symptoms that included vomiting, diarrhea,
muscle twitches and abnormally slow heart rates. At
the same time, people in Oregon were falling ill, too,
and tests of watermelons found extremely high levels
of aldicarb, which was illegal to use on all melons.
California ordered an immediate ban on watermelon
sales, which meant huge quantities had to be
destroyed in fields and at stores at the height of the
season.
How aldicarb got into watermelons remains unknown,
but experts suspected that some melon farmers used
low levels of it intentionally and illegally and that
some also might have flowed off nearby cotton fields.
11. Aldicarb
That summer, a total of 1,350 cases of aldicarb
poisoning from watermelon were reported in
California, plus another 692 cases in eight
other states and Canada, according to a report
by the CDC.
Seventeen people were hospitalized. Six deaths
and two stillbirths were reported in people
who fell ill, but the pesticide was not listed as
the cause of death in coroner reports.
“The system is designed to leave things like this
on the market as long as possible. It’s innocent
until proven guilty. It’s really unconscionable
that it takes literally decades to do this.”
12. Roundup (Glyphosate)
Roundup is a weed killer manufactured by Monsanto
and widely used on crops in the U.S. and around
the world.
Monsanto reengineered the DNA of corn, soybeans,
and other crops for the primary purpose of making
them resistant to Roundup.
Farmers spray the chemical on crops grown from
Monsanto’s Roundup Ready seeds. The weeds die,
harvests expand, and expensive, laborious tillage is
no longer necessary.
The EPA classified glyphosate, the main ingredient in
Roundup, as noncarcinogenic to humans in 1991.
In December 2016, the EPA convened a panel to peer
review their health assessment of glyphosate, as
required for each pesticide every 15 years.
13. Roundup (Glyphosate)
The EPA paper on glyphosate dismissed as invalid
any study that suggested the chemical could
cause cancer, and their report of the peer
review process downplayed concerns raised by
the experts on the panel.
Trump’s EPA - led by Administrator Scott Pruitt,
the former Oklahoma attorney general who
sued the EPA more than a dozen times to stop
environmental regulations - and the courts will
now decide glyphosate’s designation.
With no glyphosate, farmers would have to resort
to using more-toxic chemicals for weed
control, or revert to grueling tillage by hand.
“Getting rid of glyphosate would have a major
impact on farmers and their bottom lines. It’s
not like there’s a risk-free scenario here.”
14. Vulcan (Chlorpyrifos)
On the Fourth of July in 1985, three people who had
eaten watermelon in Oakland, Calif., rapidly became
ill with symptoms that included vomiting, diarrhea,
muscle twitches and abnormally slow heart rates. At
the same time, people in Oregon were falling ill, too,
and tests of watermelons found extremely high levels
of aldicarb, which was illegal to use on all melons.
California ordered an immediate ban on watermelon
sales, which meant huge quantities had to be
destroyed in fields and at stores at the height of the
season.
How aldicarb got into watermelons remains unknown,
but experts suspected that some melon farmers used
low levels of it intentionally and illegally and that
some also might have flowed off nearby cotton fields.