Diazinon, one of the most popular and often-used pesticides in the country, will be pulled off garden retailers' shelves Dec. 31 because it is considered a health threat to children, not to ...

Retailers in the United States are prohibited from selling diazinon, a highly effective killer of a variety of yard pests such as ants and grub worms. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...

First Dursban and now diazinon are disappearing from the garden center shelf. If you are familiar with the pesticide safety standards set by the Food Quality Protection Act and passed by Congress ...

Re “EPA Takes Pesticide Diazinon Off the Shelves,” Jan. 1: So after literally decades of deliberation, and invoking the 1996 Pesticide Reform Act, the EPA has banned the insecticide diazinon ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Dec. 5 -- The Environmental Protection Agency hasreached agreement for the phaseout of a widely used pesticide,diazinon, because of its potential health risks to children ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to push it to take action to stop endangered species from being harmed by the pesticides chlorpyrifos and ...

WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service released a revised draft biological opinion today finding that three widely used insecticides — chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion — jeopardize the ...

“The lack of action on diazinon is yet another example of EPA’s failure to fully consider the risks to farmworkers, children, and the environment from pesticides,” said Jay Feldman, executive director ...

The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority’s proposed changes to diazinon – used in pest control for livestock – could also see certain medicated cattle tags removed.

The precedent has already been set in New Zealand, which will no longer allow use of diazinon by July 1, 2028 in a decision gazetted mid-last year by that country’s Environmental Protection ...