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 ...

The Indian Veterinary Research Institute identified the pesticide 'carbofuran' as the cause of 25 vulture deaths in Dudhwa ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On April 7, carcasses of vultures and dogs were recovered from fields near Semrai village under the Bhira range of the Dudhwa reserve buffer zone. According to the IVRI lab report, toxicological ...

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 ...