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  2. Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

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    The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has six divisions, which work to cultivate and expand new economic opportunities for the food and agricultural sector; safeguard the public’s food supply; inspect and enforce sound animal health practices; control and eradicate plant pests and diseases threatening the food and ...

  3. Pesticide regulation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The EPA PestWise program is a consortium of four EPA environmental stewardship programs, the Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program, the Strategic Agriculture Initiative, the Biopesticide Demonstration Program and the Pesticide Registration Renewal Improvement Act Partnership, that work to protect human health and the environment through ...

  4. Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the FIFRA, the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2003 amended the authorized fees for certain products, assessed the process of collecting maintenance fees, and decided on a review process for approving the pesticides. The Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2007 renewed these changes to stay in place until 2012.

  5. Malathion - Wikipedia

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    Malathion is a pesticide that is widely used in agriculture, residential landscaping, public recreation areas, and in public health pest control programs such as mosquito eradication. [5] In the US, it is the most commonly used organophosphate insecticide.

  6. South African Health Products Regulatory Authority - Wikipedia

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    In January 2021, SAHPRA authorised under Section 21 of the Medicines and Related Substances Act, a Compassionate Use Access programme, which gave permission to five importers of unregistered Ivermectin in oral solid dosage form and for health facilities to hold bulk stock. The reasoning for this was to thwart the use of illicit and veterinary ...

  7. Rotterdam Convention - Wikipedia

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    The Rotterdam Convention (formally, the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade) is a multilateral treaty to promote shared responsibilities in relation to importation of hazardous chemicals. The convention promotes open exchange of information and calls ...

  8. List of food contamination incidents - Wikipedia

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    1984/85 – hamburger thyrotoxicosis among residents of southwestern Minnesota and adjacent areas of South Dakota and Iowa. [24] [25] 1985 – Aldicarb pesticide residue present in watermelons grown in California caused an outbreak of pesticide food poisoning which affected over 2,000 people, and lead to a temporary ban on watermelon sales. [26]

  9. DDT - Wikipedia

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    [48] [24] [9] In 1947, Bradbury Robinson, a physician and nutritionist practicing in St. Louis, Michigan, warned of the dangers of using the pesticide DDT in agriculture. DDT had been researched and manufactured in St. Louis by the Michigan Chemical Corporation , later purchased by Velsicol Chemical Corporation , [ 49 ] and had become an ...