What kind of evidence does it require to get a widely used chemical banned? A professor of medicine and former state regulator explains how the case for chlorpyrifos as a threat to public health developed.
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Starting Feb. 6, 2020, California farmers will be barred from using chlorpyrifos on their crops. The Trump administration says more study is needed, but other states are also moving ahead.
As climatic conditions change, plants’ odours are altered, with direct consequences for pollination, especially by bees.
The participants who chose more organically grown foods over 4.5 years had slightly lower rates of cancer. But it doesn’t necessarily mean one thing caused the other.
The U.S. Consumer Protection Safety Commission has recommended a wide-spread ban on an entire class of flame retardants. Here’s how Canada could follow suit.
Using nerve agents is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention, but North Korea is not a party to it.
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Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of International Law and Director, Sydney Centre for International Law, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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Maître de conférences en écologie, Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d’écologie marine et continentale, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
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Professeur Ecologie chimique, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
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York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy, York University, Canada
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