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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.
Under current regulations, manufacturers of commercial chemicals (excluding pesticides) are not required to supply any toxicity data before selling their products.
In a review of the literature on 173 fish full life-cycle and ELS tests performed to determine the chronically safe concentrations of a wide variety of toxicants, such as metals, pesticides, organics, inorganics, detergents, and complex effluents, Woltering (1984) found that at the lowest effect concentration, significant reductions were observed in fry survival in 57%, fry growth in 36%, and egg hatchability in 19% of the tests.
Little research has been conducted on the long-term health effects of pesticides on farm workers.
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).