Pesticide-treated vs. “Pesticide-free” Tobacco

The science of pesticide-free potato chips.

The ethics of industry experimentation using employees: the case of taste-testing pesticide-treated tobacco.

In the United States, companies that use their own funds to test consumer products on their employees are subject to few regulations. Using previously undisclosed tobacco industry documents, we reviewed the history of that industry's efforts to create internal guidelines on the conditions to be met before employee taste testers could evaluate cigarettes made from tobacco treated with experiment...

PESTICIDE RESISTANCE MANAGEMENT Pesticide Resistance Management

Pesticide Immunoassay

Pesticides are used globally for enhancing crop yields. However, their excessive use/misuse, especially in the developing countries, results in widespread food and environmental contamination. The presence of pesticide residues in food and environment has posed a serious threat to human health and caused a great concern. In order to keep human from being affected, analytical and monitoring syst...

Mortality of Rhagoletis Species Encountering Pesticide-Treated Spheres (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Baited pesticide-treated biodegradable spheres were evaluated for their efÞcacy to control and monitor apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh), and blueberry maggot, R. mendax Curran, ßies. A Plexiglas pane treated with sprayable Tangle-Trap was found to be an effective technique for assessing the fate of Rhagoletis ßies encountering treated spheres. SigniÞcantly more R. pomonella and R. men...