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1. News - World - HEALTH

   20pc of French bottled water has traces of pesticides and drugs

   Posted Mar 27th 2013, 12:00am by GDN

   ... News World Mineral Water Pesticides The Guardian in Paris They are sold as being cleaner, healthier and purer than the water that spouts from the average French tap. Now, however, an investigation has discovered traces of pesticides and prescription drugs - including a medicine used to treat breast cancer - in almost one in five brands of bottled water on the shelves ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1200440/20pc-french-bottled-water-has-traces-pesticides-and-drugs
2. News - World - EUROPEAN UNION

   EU to ban pesticides linked to bee deaths

   Posted Apr 29th 2013, 11:14pm by AFP

   ... in a previous vote had abstained and was under heavy pressure from pharmaceutical firms and farmers to fight the proposal, also voted in favour. Pesticide producers Bayer of Germany and Switzerland’s ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1226271/eu-ban-pesticides-linked-bee-deaths
3. Tighter rules vital on use of pesticides

   Posted Jun 22nd 2011, 12:00am

   ... Politics Agriculture Environmental Effects of Pesticides Pesticides DDT Our government acknowledges that many pesticides are toxic in nature and have to be handled ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/971349/tighter-rules-vital-use-pesticides
4. BOOK (1962)

   Posted Jan 24th 2010, 12:00am by David Wilson

   ... by documenting the vicious effects of pesticides on the environment with forensic yet poetic aplomb. 'These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/704518/book-1962
5. Supermarkets taken to task over pesticides

   Posted Aug 25th 2009, 12:00am by Adrian Wan

   ... As Watson Pesticides Soil Contamination Adrian Wan Pesticide residues that could cause cancer and disrupt the human endocrine system have been found in some fruit for sale in supermarkets, Greenpeace said yesterday. It called on the government ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/690600/supermarkets-taken-task-over-pesticides
6. Public consuming 'pesticide cocktails', Greenpeace claims

   Posted Apr 09th 2009, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Agriculture Environment Environment Pesticides Stephen Chen in Beijing Mainland residents drink 'pesticide cocktails' almost daily and more than 50 kinds of pesticides have been detected in fruit and vegetables sold in big cities, according to a Greenpeace report. The report drew swift criticism, with some saying most pesticides detected were at very low levels ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/676237/public-consuming-pesticide-cocktails-greenpeace-claims
7. In Brief

   Posted Apr 26th 2011, 12:00am

   ... Environment Environment Hydrides Pesticide Environment Three injured as gas blast rips through Guanxi pesticide factory An explosion rocked a pesticide factory in Guangxi province yesterday afternoon, injuring three workers. The blast ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/966070/brief
8. News - China - FOOD SAFETY

   Ginger farmers using toxic pesticide

   Posted May 06th 2013, 04:25pm by Ernest Kao

   ... News China Food Safety Pesticide Poisoning Environment Ginger China Food Scandals Ernest Kao ernest.kao@scmp.com Farmers in Shandong have been overusing an illegal and highly toxic pesticide to grow ginger for years on end, adding yet another concern to the country’s growing list of food scandals. An investigative report by China Central Television (CCTV) , which aired ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1231442/shandong-farmers-overusing-toxic-pesticide-ginger-report-finds
9. Lifestyle - Technology - SHORT SCIENCE

   Short Science, March 31, 2013

   Posted Mar 31st 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... created by the privately owned Stamina Foundation, was banned by Italian medicines regulator AIFA last year after it inspected their laboratories. Reuters   Pesticides may scramble bees' ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1203372/short-science-march-31-2013
10. Fruit dumped in challenge to food safety tests

    Posted Jan 24th 2007, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

    ... Environment Environment Soil Contamination Pesticides DDT Cheung Chi-fai Greenpeace says pesticide levels in its lab results show centre is not doing its job Greenpeace activists yesterday dumped hundreds of mainland tangerines and strawberries outside the Centre for Food Safety after they found excessive amounts of pesticides in five samples. The activists cast doubts ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/579342/fruit-dumped-challenge-food-safety-tests

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