The Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward to implement the agency's May 2009 final rule revoking tolerances, or residue limits, for the pesticide carbofuran. EPA continues to find that ...

Due to considerable risks associated with the pesticide carbofuran in food and drinking water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is revoking the regulations that allow carbofuran residues in ...

Responding to a UN call for a worldwide ban, carbofuran, a highly toxic pesticide, was banned by the government last year. However, due to a lack of monitoring and enforcement, the pesticide is still ...

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule Monday banning the use of the pesticide carbofuran on food crops, saying it poses an unacceptable health risk, especially to children. The ...

Maryland state officials are enhancing enforcement efforts after the deaths of bald eagles and an owl.The Maryland Department of Agriculture and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources are ...

In a move that caught industry and environmental groups by surprise, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed on July 24 to ban residues of the neurotoxic pesticide carbofuran on all foods sold in ...

FMC Corp. agreed yesterday to stop selling a crop pesticide in Maryland and nine other coastal states that has been blamed for the deaths of more than a dozen bald eagles in the Chesapeake Bay region.

(Beyond Pesticides, May 12, 2009) The Environmental Protection Agency has revoked regulations that permit residues of the pesticide carbofuran in food. This follows a voluntary withdrawl of 22 uses by ...

In an unexpected move, the U.S. EPA announced Thursday that it will act to ban the pesticide carbofuran from food in the United States before next year’s growing season. The EPA said the pesticide can ...

FMC Corp., manufacturer of the controversial agricultural pesticide carbofuran, and some farm-state members of Congress are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its decision to ...

WASHINGTON, DC, July 28, 2008 (ENS) - Due to "considerable risks" of damage to human health and the environment associated with the pesticide carbofuran, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is ...

The Environmetal Protection Agency (EPA) has revoked all tolerances for residues of the pesticide carbofuran—effectively banning the insecticide from use in any crop after December 31, 2009.