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Are bees addicted to pesticides?

New study finds bees are attracted to nectar containing common pesticides, thus increasing their chances of lethal exposure

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Organic crops higher in beneficial antioxidants, lower in pesticides

A major new analysis has shown that organic foods contain significantly higher levels of beneficial antioxidants – and lower levels of harmful pesticides.

Link between agricultural pesticides and autism revealed

Exposure to a range of commonly used agricultural pesticides in utero can substantially raise a child’s risk of developing autism

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Children exposed to a dangerous cocktail of pesticides, says new report

A new French analysis has shown, once again, the shocking extent to which our children are contaminated with pesticides

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‘Inactive’ ingredients make pesticides more toxic

Widely used pesticides can be made even more toxic due to the combination of so-called ‘inactive’ ingredients they contain

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EU authority: neonic pesticides harm children’s brains

Exposure to two neonicotinoid insecticides – acetamiprid and imidacloprid – most commonly associated with bee deaths, can also harm children

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UK Government’s pesticides reform doesn’t go far enough

Proposed changes to pesticide risk assessments still fall short of securing the protection of people in the countryside from pesticides

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Banned pesticides increase endometriosis risk

Traces of hormone-disrupting organochlorine pesticides, banned decades ago, are still having a disastrous effect on women’s health

Bees with Alzheimer’s – the price of pesticides

The EU has failed to ban neurotoxic neonic pesticides – so what now for our bees?

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Common pesticides damage bees’ brains, make them confused and forgetful

Two new studies show that exposure to common pesticides, neonics and organophosphates, makes bees forget what flowers smell like

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