Master stroke

Specify pesticide levels on soft drinks: Supreme Court

Filter out trouble

Gold and silver nanoparticles remove pesticides from water

Pests behind Codex standards

Swearing by them is nothing more than laziness and deception of regulators

Sounds of self-interested silence

The dumber number game

How do you like your food, sir?

Rotterdam Convention: no new agenda for pesticides at chemical review panel meet

Signals under-utilisation of the subsidiary body of Rotterdam Convention

Quality takes back seat in agribusiness

Factory Farming Andrew Johnson Publisher: Blackwell Pages: 272 Price: Not stated

Self -defending spuds

Potato plants that poison pests

Childhood cancers

Chemical banned

Deadly and still free

An international meeting on phasing out deadly pesticides has just come a cropper

UNITED NATIONS

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Frog leap to oblivion

Pesticides are killing frogs and other amphibian species in the US

Human testing debate resurfaces

Pharmaceutical company seeks to use human data to promote pesticides

Exposing America's toxic burden

Pesticides Action Network's report says Americans carry high pesticide levels in their bodies

Pesticide scavenger

Modified enzyme neutralises ill-effects of toxic chemicals

Chemical confusion

Notorious endocrine disruptor, BPA, could induce mating between different fish species

Democracy must be worked at

White gold rush

Despite several government programmes, cotton cultivation is riddled with problems

Deadly concoctions

Farmers are not fully aware of the consequences of using chemical pesticides

Deadly increase

Grounded

Endosulfan aerial spraying banned in Kasaragod

Housewarning

Pesticide exposure can lead to leukaemia in children