The US EPA’s office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) completed 1347 registration actions subject to the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act (PRIA) in fiscal 2006. The OPP completed 99.9% of actions with PRIA due dates in fiscal 2006

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Brazilian pesticide toxicology authorities have recommended the cancellation of all registrations of the acaricide, cyhexatin.

The Ministry of Health's national health surveillance agency, the Anvisa, found that the active ingredient had extremely high acute toxicity in animal tests, and had already “been banned or had severe restrictions in several countries due to human health risks”.

Cyhexatin is the base of seven registered pesticide products in the country. Citrus...

Insecticides are the most important preventative tool against malaria, dengue and filariasis. Even for yellow fever, where a vaccine exists, insecticides are needed to control common outbreaks.

Characteristics that make good public health insecticides (PHIs) are not necessarily shared by modern agricultural or industrial insecticides. For example, DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane) was dropped as an agrochemical in the 1970s because it biodegrades slowly and accumulates in biological...