(Beyond Pesticides, July 6, 2023) A study published in Environmental Health Perspectives finds concentrations of organophosphate (OP) metabolites in urine during the prenatal phase have links to ...

A pesticide used for decades on farms across the United States and around the world may significantly increase the risk of ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 30, 2019) The indictment of organophosphate pesticides gained more traction with the publication, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, of a new research ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency is facing renewed pressure to protect children and farmworkers by banning all organophosphate pesticides on food crops. In a Nov. 17 petition, a coalition of ...

Public health experts have found there is sufficient evidence that prenatal exposure to widely used insecticides known as organophosphates puts children at risk for neurodevelopmental disorders.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to move swiftly to hear a lawsuit that seeks to ban a dozen organophosphate pesticides, a class of chemicals activists rationalize as descended from Nazi ...

EPA is asking registrants of four organophosphate insecticides to submit new label amendments, which could include canceling some uses, to better protect workers who mix, load and apply the chemicals, ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency is backtracking on a decision it made last year to ban the organophosphate pesticide tetrachlorvinphos (TCVP) in pet collars used to control fleas, ticks, and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Children whose mothers were exposed to certain types of pesticides while pregnant were more likely to have attention problems as they grew up, U.S. researchers reported on ...

Background: Animal studies have demonstrated that low paraoxonase-1 (PON1) status (i. e., low catalytic efficiency and/or low plasma PON1 activity) is associated with neurotoxic effects after exposure ...

Coho salmon spawn in freshwater. Salmon use their powerful sense of smell in almost every vital endeavor, and even low exposure to organophosphate pesticides can permanently impair this sense. Credit: ...

Organophosphates are among the most commonly used classes of pesticides in the United States, despite mounting evidence linking prenatal exposure to the chemicals to poorer cognition and behavior ...