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They are also known to cause health problems such as cancer. The families seek more than $75,000 in damages from Synagro because they cannot sell their cattle and their land is “almost worthless ...
(The Center Square) – Texas has filed a lawsuit against several large chemical companies alleging they manufacture toxic forever chemicals used in products marketed as safe for families. Texas ...
The E. coli outbreak connected to organic carrots has left at least 38 people sick and one person dead, federal health officials reported.
Washing of vegetables produces large volumes of water contaminated by soil and vegetable pieces. Low levels of pesticides used to treat the vegetables may also be present together with moderate levels of disinfectants such as chlorine. Treatment. Most vegetable washing waters are extensively recycled with the solids removed by settlement and ...
Extensive use of agrochemicals in agricultural practices has been found to cause environmental disturbances and public health hazards affecting food security and sustainability in agriculture. [22] Biofertilizers offers an alternative solution for such agrochemicals, and show yield increase of up to about 10–40% by increasing protein contents ...
But, it is not just the vegetables that are susceptible; in the tropics, soft rot develops on important crops like corn, cassava, and banana even while still in the field. Specifically, soft rot of potatoes can cause a huge decrease in yield, and is the most serious bacterial disease that potatoes are exposed to.
The problem will progress up the plants until they’re virtually bare. General-purpose garden fungicides will control this late-spring disease that is made worse by water on leaves. Spider mites.
Ingestion of solanine in moderate amounts can cause death. One study suggests that doses of 2 to 5 mg/kg of body weight can cause toxic symptoms, and doses of 3 to 6 mg/kg of body weight can be fatal. [5] Symptoms usually occur 8 to 12 hours after ingestion, but may occur as rapidly as 10 minutes after eating high-solanine foods. [citation needed]