I beat you to this one by a few hours :)
Only one of the two pesticides are commonly used (carbaryl), the other (carbofuran) is actually restricted as it is highly toxic, for non melatonin receptor binding reasons.
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I was just going to say...I read about this just a minute ago!
Lol - it's in stereo now!
There you go!
I was about to advertise you ;) You were faster :D
Great minds think alike, @thecryptofiend and I were furiously typing and racing to allow people to read about this!
Lol I thought I would be the only one who saw it. I think this is like the convergent evolution of thought!
He was for sure I don't know how it got it out so fast!
At the end, we have two nice articles :)
Yes for sure. It is bound to happen particularly at this time of year which is pretty quiet in my experience for research.
I actually discussed both posts with my wife (@lamouthe) this morning. Very interestingly, we were saying that all this pesticide stuff should be even more worrying. Even if in principle, everything is under control and we only end up with harmless tracks of pesticide in the everyday-life products (this is proven in many cases), the problem is that quantity is non zero. Once integrated over all the products we eat, who know whether this is really so harmless?
And there is very little way to know (pesticides do not respect borders, etc...).
Exactly and there are so many other compounds that may have other effects that add to things like cancer risk via other mechanisms.
Cool. Yes I think Carbofuran is banned for human food production in most places but is apparently still used in some places like Mexico. I think the main problem is that with modern grocery shopping our food comes from so many sources we could still inadvertently be exposed.
Yep Carbofuran is (at least as I was reading) really nasty stuff. There really don't seem to be any good pesticides, so I am not sure what large growers are supposed to do to keep food production high enough.
Yes I think some people were seriously disabled and killed due to exposure. Seem to remember reading about it when researching cholinesterase poising some time back.
Well GM crops would be the alternative but they don't have good press. Natural pest control (using predators like ladybirds can help too) but I'm not sure how effective they are on an industrial scale. Nothing in nature comes for free I suppose!