Responding to a UN call for a worldwide ban, carbofuran, a highly toxic pesticide, was banned by the government last year. However, due to a lack of monitoring and enforcement, the pesticide is still ...

Due to considerable risks associated with the pesticide carbofuran in food and drinking water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is revoking the regulations that allow carbofuran residues in ...

“Carbofuran has the unpleasant distinction of being so hazardous to wildlife, that it simply cannot be regulated or managed accordingly without mortality.” So states forensic ecologist and ...

Maryland state officials are enhancing enforcement efforts after the deaths of bald eagles and an owl.The Maryland Department of Agriculture and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources are ...

The Environmetal Protection Agency (EPA) has revoked all tolerances for residues of the pesticide carbofuran—effectively banning the insecticide from use in any crop after December 31, 2009.

In an unexpected move, the U.S. EPA announced Thursday that it will act to ban the pesticide carbofuran from food in the United States before next year’s growing season. The EPA said the pesticide can ...

WASHINGTON, DC, July 28, 2008 (ENS) - Due to "considerable risks" of damage to human health and the environment associated with the pesticide carbofuran, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is ...

FRESNO — California law enforcement has learned that Mexican drug traffickers are using a dangerous pesticide banned in the United States to grow marijuana in remote areas of California’s Sierra ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule May 11 banning the use of the pesticide carbofuran on food crops, saying it poses an unacceptable health risk, especially to ...

Carbofuran is a plant protection product which can be used against certain insects, mites, ticks and nematodes. On the basis of the amount of the carbofuran residues and estimated dietary intake of ...

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule Monday banning the use of the pesticide carbofuran on food crops, saying it poses an unacceptable health risk, especially to children. Subscribe ...

In a move that caught industry and environmental groups by surprise, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed on July 24 to ban residues of the neurotoxic pesticide carbofuran on all foods sold in ...