PARATHION BANNED ON APPLES, OTHER CROPS ACTION AGAINST INSECTICIDE TO PROTECT CHILDREN.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: August 3, 1999 | Copyright information

The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday banned most uses of a insecticide applied widely for years on fruits and vegetables and tightened restrictions on another, in the first regulations intended specifically to protect children.

Starting next year, the pesticide methyl parathion may not be used on a wide variety of crops from apples to turnips. The insecticide, mainly used by farmers and orchardists, has already been heavily regulated for years.

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