Even if the pesticides are not on the produce, they can be in it. Some of the most common insecticides are applied around a ...

The country has learned a lot since Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring alerted us to the hazards of poisonous chemicals. But pesticide use still poses major threats to imperiled wildlife and ...

WASHINGTON— A peer-reviewed study published today in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives has found that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), known as “forever chemicals,” are ...

PFA chemicals, used in some pesticides, were identified in a range of foods in 2022, according to results from the latest government testing. Called ‘forever chemicals’, because they can take ...

In conventional agriculture, synthetic chemical pesticides are used in various crops such as arable farming, vegetable growing and viticulture. A study by the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau ...

It has been revealed four pesticides used in Jersey contain the chemical PFAS. They are among 25 PFAS-containing pesticides that campaigners in the UK are calling to be banned after they say the ...