An agriculture specialist recently discovered in the U.S. state of Texas a weevil that the science world has yet to describe, the U.S. media reported Thursday. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialist working in Freeport, Texas, discovered two weCBPevils during a routine cargo examination of a 50,000-kg shipment of Guatemalan pineapples, according [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pesticides’
A New Pest Discovered In Texas
Posted: June 19, 2009 in agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization, Guatemalan pineapples, Pesticide Board, pesticides, Smithsonian Institute's Entomology Lab in Washington D.C, Texas, University Sains Malaysia, US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention., USA, Vegetables, weCBPevils, WeevilTags: pest, pesticides
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How to prevent systematic poisoning in our homes
Posted: November 18, 2008 in agriculture, Daily Express Sabah, Food and Agriculture Organization, gardening, Health, Malaysia, Malaysia Today, Malaysian Economics, mothers, New Scientist, North Borneo, Penang, Pesticide Action Network (PAN), Pesticide Board, pesticides, poison, Sabah, Sabah Politics, Sarawak, Tawau, University Sains Malaysia, US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention., Vegetables, Woman, World Health OrganizationTags: Health, Pesticide Action Network, pesticides, poisoning
Mothers Beware! Do you know that you are systematically poisoning your homes without even knowing you are doing so? Hear this, 80 per cent of Malaysian households, particularly women and children, used at least one pesticide indoors, in 2005 according to one survey recently. Also, the majority of the nearly 2000 pesticide products in the [...]
Melamine In Sabah?
Posted: October 15, 2008 in agriculture, China, Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) president S.M. Mohamed Idris, cyromazine, Daily Express Sabah, Food and Agriculture Organization, gardening, Health, Malaysia, Malaysia Today, malaysiakini, Malaysian Human Rights, Melamine, Mohsen Meydani of the Jean Mayer U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts., Pesticide Board, pesticide poisoning, pesticides, poison, Sabah, Vegetables, vegetarians, World Health OrganizationTags: agriculture, Health, Melamine, pesticides, poison
I am deeply trouble by the chinese milk scandal which is making waves around the world and has thus created increasing food safety repercussions, with many countries banning or restricting melamine tainted milk products, fruits and vegetables imported from China. So, what is this melamine thing which is causing so much havoc, misery and death [...]
March 8th 2008 Election and Pesticide
Posted: June 28, 2008 in agriculture, Blogroll, Daily Express Sabah, Malaysia, Malaysia Today, malaysiakini, Malaysian Politics, North Borneo, Pasok, Pesticide Board, pesticides, Sabah, Sabah Politics, Sarawak, Tawau, Uncategorized, VegetablesTags: agriculture, pesticides
I had crisscross all over Sabah during the recent March 8 General Election, whilst campaigning for a friend and his political party which had 14 indigenous candidates contesting the elections, who all lost their election deposits. Jokes aside, all the candidates lost their deposit and I shall write about this another time, but [...]
