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But half of all the soybean crops and a third of all the corn in the United States are already genetically modified varieties, and the possibilities of using genetic modification to increase crop yields and protect against pesticides, to say nothing of creating vitamin-enhanced crops, are so wide-ranging that it seems difficult to imagine they will be dismissed out of hand.
Production of other chemicals, such as chlorine and certain pesticides, which have commercial as well as military applications, will continue, but a U.N. agency will monitor production to prevent their military use.
If the concentration of total organochlorine pesticides exceeds 0.l5 µg/g wet weight, or the concentration of the total organochlorine pesticides plus PCBs exceeds 0.30 µg/g wet weight, or toxic metals (Al, As, Cr, Co, Cu, Pb, Ni, Zn, expressed as total metal) exceed 20 µg/g wet weight, the food should not be used (for analytical methods see AOAC, 1990 and USDA, 1989).
A new study by Colorado Legal Services, the first of its kind in the Rocky Mountain region, says such migrant workers at farms statewide are regularly exposed to hazardous pesticides in violation of federal laws.
Because the target of DDT and pyrethroid insecticides is the voltage-gated Na +channel [ 15 ] , and considering that the anti-malarial quinine blocks K +channels, insights into the ion channels in the genomes of this mosquito and other insects may be useful for investigating how DDT and other pesticides may be used with greatest efficacy and safety.
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