Malathion
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Malathion : see insecticide .
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Malathion ineffective way to combat West Nile Virus
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MALATHION SPRAYING OK'D IN BID TO STOP MOSQUITOES
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... officials have approved the spraying of malathion -- the controversial insecticide used ... parts of southeastern Massachusetts. Malathion spraying is scheduled to begin Tuesday ... this approach." Experts acknowledge that malathion spraying does carry some risks. In California ...
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TESTS REPORTED TO SHOW MALATHION FISH KILLS
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Test results have confirmed that malathion killed more than 1 million fish in southeastern ... pesticide laboratory in Amherst showed that malathion was responsible for four fish kills after ... mosquitoes. Three DC-3 aircraft sprayed malathion from Aug. 27-29 over 700,000 acres in ...
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WHY USE MALATHION?
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... Bergen County, NJ) 08-21-2000 WHY USE MALATHION? Date: 08-21-2000, Monday Section: OPINION ... One Star B THE USE of the pesticide Malathion is approved by the federal Environmental ... enough questions about the safety of Malathion that Bergen County and New York City ...
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Ga. county drops malathion spraying.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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... County Commission agreed to stop using malathion, and thus dropped the primary component ... partment's recommendation to abandon the use of malathion. Instead, the health department, which ... spraying. Both said there was little proof malathion wasn't useful because the health department ...
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Malathion Ruled Safe.(Brief Article)
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... to the organophosphate pesticide malathion is safe and there is insufficient ... initial health risk reassessment for malathion, required by the Food Quality Protection Act (CW Jan. 26, p. 51). Malathion was used in 1999 to control mosquitoes ...
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Spinosad May Replace Malathion.(Brief Article)
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... widely accepted alternative to the malathion sprays used for fighting insects such ... to the organophosphate insecticide malathion and to phloxone B, a dye that is also a promising alternative to malathion. Malathion was more effective than ...
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Malathion exposure suit goes to state high court. (California) (Brief Article)
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... must alert the public to the hazards of malathion when government agencies that spray the ... subsequently became blind from the pesticide. Malathion was sprayed from helicopters over his ... alleged negligent failure to warn of malathion's dangers. The Maciases' lawyer, Barrett ...
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Malathion makers have no duty to warn. (California)(Brief Article)
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... injuries to a teenager who was blinded by malathion during a state emergency spraying program ... hazards--notably blindness--linked to malathion. The pesticide remains in use to eradicate ... duty to warn California residents of malathion's health hazards because state agencies ...
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Malathion Suit Settled.(Brief Article)
Chemical Week; 5/24/2000; SEEWALD, NANCY; 105 words;
... contamination from the spraying of the organophosphate pesticide malathion was settled in the Polk County Circuit Court earlier this ... homeowners against their home insurance company, claims that malathion and its toxic metabolite malaoxon were found in samples taken ...
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Malathion Risk Called Understated
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... state study used to defend spraying of the Medfly pesticide malathion, says his findings were edited to understate the danger to ... Angeles Times his findings indicated that the health risk from malathion spraying is six times greater than what the report officially ...
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Malathion Class Action.(lawsuit filed against Cheminova)(Brief Article)
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... Cheminova (Wayne, NJ) alleging that the company sold improperly stored malathion to state officials for Medfly spraying in 1997 and 1998. Cheminova shipped the malathion, an organophosphate pesticide, from a storage site in Texas, and the company ...
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