Parathion

* After the ban, it was replaced by parathion, which is really unsafe. ❋ Crichton, Michael, 1942- (2004)

So for example the pesticides made of organophosphates (parathion and malathion) and organochlorides (such as DDT) permanently deactivate an enzyme that is essential to the nervous system. ❋ Annie Leonard (2010)

In 1974, the US Environmental Protection Agency licensed the nerve gas parathion trapped into nylon bubbles the size of pollen particles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unfortunately, this made no difference to EPA, which failed to ban the microencapsulated parathion that is so deadly to honeybees. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The foraging bee, if alive after its visit to the beautiful white flowers of almonds, for example, laden with invisible spheres of asphyxiating gas, would be bringing back to its home pollen and nectar mixed with parathion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Moreover, many beekeepers do not throw away the honey, pollen and wax of colonies destroyed by encapsulated parathion or other poisons. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wouldn't want to risk parathion contaminated with melamine! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unfortunately, this made no difference to EPA, which failed to ban the microencapsulated parathion that is so deadly to honeybees. ' ❋ Unknown (2009)

An academic expert, Carl Johansen, professor of entomology at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, called the microencapsulated methyl parathion "the most destructive bee poisoning insecticide ever developed." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Methyl parathion is a 1950s neurotoxin that short-circuits insect nervous systems—and can similarly affect humans. ❋ Adam Leith Gollner (2008)

For example: parathion is more toxic to young animals nitrosamines are more carcinogenic to newborn or young animals ❋ Unknown (2007)

Examples are: male rats are 10 times more sensitive than females to liver damage from DDT female rats are twice as sensitive to parathion as male rats ❋ Unknown (2007)

An extensive indoor application of methyl parathion, a restricted-use agricultural pesticide, led to the temporary relocation of more than 250 households in Jackson County, Mississippi, U.S. in 1997. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Even if a terrorist managed to drench a field with, say, the pesticide methyl parathion or arsenic or anthrax, the farm workers would be affected before the crop reached consumers. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At a Juxian shop that sells pesticides to local farmers, a notice from the local agricultural ministry detailed five kinds of banned pesticides, including methamidophos and parathion. ❋ Unknown (2007)