Tag: DOW Chemical

Mountain Of Evidence Confirms Common Pesticide Hazardous To Children’s Health | Waking Times

Chlorpyrifos

Stacy Malkan, Children’s Health Defense
Waking Times – October 29, 2020

Chlorpyrifos insecticides were introduced by Dow Chemical in 1965 and have been used widely in agricultural settings. Commonly known as the active ingredient in the brand names Dursban and Lorsban, chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate insecticide, acaricide and miticide used primarily to control foliage and soil-borne insect pests on a variety of food and feed crops. Products come in liquid form as well as granules, powders and water-soluble packets, and may be applied by either ground or aerial equipment.

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Agent Orange: 24 Chilling Photos Of The War Crime The US Got Away With — September 19, 2017

As the world discusses the end of ISIS, the third world war, the North Korea threat, and the US imperial foreign policy, it quietly forgets the Vietnam War during which the United States used Agent Orange (a toxic mixture of two herbicides that contained large amounts of dioxin) to wipe out Vietnamese forest cover in…Read more & photos

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