The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) previously reported widespread residential insecticide use in urban communities in New York City. Research suggests that pyrethroids are ...

Most of us think we’re protecting ourselves from noxious chemicals with half-superstitious gestures: filtering the water we drink a pitcher at a time, or confining ourselves to the organic aisles of ...

While pyrethroids have been characterized as less toxic than organophosphates, the number of reported human health problems, including severe reactions and even deaths attributed to pesticides ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency has given the green light for 13 pyrethroid insecticides to remain on the US market, with a few new restrictions. The EPA is reevaluating a total of 23 ...

Dallas County is expected to begin aerial spraying of adulticide this week in an attempt to curb the mosquito population and stall the spread of West Nile virus in the county. They have contracted ...

Recent research, which found a link between pyrethroids and deaths from heart disease, highlights the limitations of epidemiological research. By Jane E. Brody With summer here and more people ...

A typical aerial spraying program involves loading a solution of the chemical and mineral oil in tanks. Nozzles create droplets that can get past the crowns of trees to hit the mosquitoes. Planes fly ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2017 - One of the major manufacturers of pyrethroids says the Environmental Protection Agency did not use “real world” data to assess the chemicals, which led it to overstate the ...

LANCASTER, Pa. - Some pesticides very commonly used by homeowners and farmers alike may not be as safe as previously thought. A first-time analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data by the ...

Insecticide resistance in crop pests is a serious global problem. Scientists have now found out what causes the strong resistance of an Australian strain of cotton bollworms to fenvalerate. The larvae ...

A: Suspend is a synthetic pyrethroid that is chemically similar to naturally occurring pyrethrins, but modified to be more stable in the environment. Synthetic pyrethroids do not decompose as rapidly ...