Review: Safer insecticides - Development and use

Insecticides - Development of Safer and More Effective TechnologiesPolymeric Nanoparticle-Based Insecticides: A Controlled Release Purpose for Agrochemicals

Towards safer use of opioids.

The main aim of our work was to improve the safety of opioid use in our institution, an acute generalhospital with 620 beds. Initially, all reported opioid errors from 2001 - 2006 were audited. The findings directed a range of multidisciplinary staff educational inputs to improve opioid prescribing and administration practice, and encourage drug error reporting. 448 drug errors were reported, o...

Pyrethroid Insecticides: Use, Environmental Fate, and Ecotoxicology

There was little public concern over potential nontarget effects of pesticides until the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (Delaplane, 2000; Moore et al., 2009). Organochlorine insecticides (such as DDT) had been used intensively and were credited for many of the problems highlighted by Carson. Because of their accumulation in the environment and reproductive toxicity in people,...

Saponins as Insecticides: a Review

Chaieb, I. 2010. Saponins as insecticides: a review. Tunisian Journal of Plant Protection 5: 3950. Saponins are heterosides (substances containing in their structure one or more sugar molecule) of plant origin. This type of molecules has an interesting pesticide potential and this review constitutes an inventory of principal researches realized in this direction. In the first part of this revie...

Do Insecticides Affect Plant Growth And Development ?

THE application of insecticides is often necessary in greenhouse crop production to prevent damage from insect pests that could render the plants unsalable. However, pesticide usage can lead to toxicity issues, which may adversely affect plant growth and development. It seems plausible that applications of foliar insecticides could adversely affect photosynthesis by clogging, or at least partia...