Endosulfan

Free Treatment For Endosulfan Victims: Minister

Free treatment would be provided to persons suffering from chronic diseases caused by the spraying of endosulfan in the cashew plantations in Kasaragod district, Health Minister P K Sreemathi said tody. // Addressing a meet-the-press programme here, she said the treatment would be made availa...

Hundreds of Children Exposed to Pesticide in US

...ally tired," said Elena, now 18. "I made it to the finish line and just fell over." Investigators found her clothes were soaked in the pesticide endosulfan I; it had been picked up from residue on the grass and absorbed into her bloodstream through her skin. Officials later found five other pesticides on ...

Endosulfan in Biological News

Pitt research finds that low concentrations of pesticides can become toxic mixture

...because current regulations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) do not require amphibian testing, Relyea said. His results showed that endosulfan was not only highly toxic to leopard frogs, but also that it served as the linchpin of the pesticide mixture that eliminated the bulk of leopard frog ...

100 percent of pregnant women have at least one kind of pesticide in their placenta

...ormance of the hormonal system). The results showed that the most frequent pesticides present in the placenta tissue are DDE (92.7%), lindane (74.8%), endosulfan diol (62.1%) y endosulfan-I (54.2%). Among these, the most prevalent was endosulfan-diol, with an average concentration of 4.15 nanograms per gram of ...