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Example sentences for: pesticide

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A Wall Street Journal front-page feature explores a worrisome unintended consequence of the pesticide strictures in the food safety law passed two years ago: to ensure compliance, some top pesticide manufacturers have resumed testing their products on people, a practice that, although legal, they'd abandoned in the early 1980s.
'It's striking that so many farm workers report experiencing symptoms of pesticide exposure,' said Jackson, director of the agency's pesticide project.
For example, once animal toxicity testing of a residential pesticide is complete (including DNT and reproductive toxicity testing), a pesticide could undergo further testing in the home environment.
The report, 'Fields of Poison,' found that California farmworkers face greater risk of pesticide poisoning than any other segment of the population and are not adequately protected.
We don't feel like we have any options,' said Maria Figeroa, 54, a member of the lettuce crew reportedly overcome by pesticide drift in Olathe.