Exposure to Pesticides
* Also see Household pesticide use, body burdens, and health sections.
2010
Nanosilver Migrates Out of Fabric in Study (Beyond Pesticides, May 3, 2010. Posted in Nanotechnology) This study raises concerns about human exposure to nanosilver through skin absorption. “Silver nanoparticles (or nanosilver) are now widely impregnated into a wide range of consumer products, including textiles such as socks, sportswear, underwear and bedding, vacuums, washing machines, toys, sunscreens, and a host of others.” Current regulations fail to guarantee consumers that these new technologies are safe to use. Silver nanoparticles meet the definition of a pesticide and should and must be regulated by the EPA as a pesticide but is not registered as a pesticide. However EPA has done little to regulate or evaluate the potential health and environmental impacts these particles may cause. NOTE: A PMRA label search shows no silver or silver nanoparticle products registered as pesticides either.
2007. Northern Exposure Acute Pesticide Poisonings in Canada by the David Suzuki Foundation.
322 Sask residents are acutely poisoned every year.
Globe and Mail article: Pesticides poison 6000 Cdns per year
Group wants to weed out pesticide use in Sask.- Regina Leader Post
* November 3, 2008. Pyrethroid pesticides found in homes and daycare centers.