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  • check food for the actual levels of pesticide residues. A US organic food advocacy group, the Environmental Working Group, is known for creating a list of...
    23 KB (2,374 words) - 10:46, 2 February 2024
  • groups at risk of suicide; making methods less accessible may be useful in suicide prevention. Limiting the availability of means such as pesticides and...
    87 KB (10,141 words) - 06:28, 25 August 2024
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    Agriculture (redirect from Working the land)
    estimated in 1992 that three million pesticide poisonings occur annually, causing 220,000 deaths. Pesticides select for pesticide resistance in the pest population...
    189 KB (18,096 words) - 08:59, 30 August 2024
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    gram-positive, soil-dwelling bacterium, the most commonly used biological pesticide worldwide. B. thuringiensis also occurs naturally in the gut of caterpillars...
    77 KB (7,828 words) - 12:30, 4 June 2024
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    Economy of Norway (category OECD member economies)
    by exploitation of natural resources, particularly North Sea oil. Among OECD nations, Norway has a highly efficient and strong social security system;...
    54 KB (4,118 words) - 01:23, 25 July 2024
  • Pest Management Regulatory Agency (category Pesticide regulation)
    Trade Agreement Technical Working Group, the European Union, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). They work to align the...
    34 KB (3,409 words) - 07:42, 14 January 2024
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    world's fourth highest suicide rate, and the highest suicide rate in the OECD. The elderly are at the highest risk of suicide, but teen suicide deaths...
    50 KB (5,668 words) - 12:38, 6 August 2024
  • World Bank Group. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 May 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023. "Subsidies and other transfers (% of expense) - OECD members"...
    60 KB (7,401 words) - 03:23, 24 August 2024
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    Policies: Concepts and Measurements," OECD Working Paper No. 75, OECD Development Center, August 1992, SourceOECD.org, 13 July 2007 http://miranda.sourceoecd...
    19 KB (2,077 words) - 02:45, 9 August 2024
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    Economy of Switzerland (category OECD member economies)
    (nominal) above US$90,000 that are neither island nations nor ministates. Among OECD nations, Switzerland holds the 3rd-largest GDP per capita.Switzerland has...
    105 KB (6,642 words) - 20:13, 14 August 2024
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    Republic of Ireland (category OECD members)
    member of the EU and a founding member of the Council of Europe and the OECD. The Irish government has followed a policy of military neutrality through...
    224 KB (19,845 words) - 14:43, 28 August 2024
  • for Pesticide Residues and contributed to technical groups of the OECD Working Group on Pesticides. Much of this work has included the development of technical...
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  • policy and public health strategies. Of the 34 member countries of the OECD, a group of mostly high-income countries that uses market economy to improve...
    65 KB (4,555 words) - 14:16, 15 August 2024
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    Organized crime (redirect from Crime group)
    counterfeit goods. In 2007, the OECD reported the scope of counterfeit products to include food, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, electrical components, tobacco...
    167 KB (19,266 words) - 16:18, 8 August 2024
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    once used as a pesticide. At high levels, these metals pose a health risk. Fertilizers and pesticides: Farmers use fertilizers and pesticides to promote growth...
    90 KB (11,861 words) - 02:47, 18 August 2024
  • Pesticides". Retrieved October 28, 2021. Buhler, Wayne. "Take Steps to Avoid Insecticide Resistance – Pesticide Environmental Stewardship". Pesticide...
    166 KB (15,046 words) - 08:22, 15 August 2024
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    Research Working Paper 5371 Directorate for Trade; Agriculture, OECD (July 16, 2008). "Economic Assessment of Biofuel Support Policies" (PDF). OECD. Archived...
    128 KB (11,860 words) - 23:34, 26 August 2024
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    contained any pesticide residue, and that organic food was more likely to be contaminated by E. coli bacteria. The Environmental Working Group objected to...
    58 KB (5,607 words) - 02:09, 3 August 2024
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    detection traps and pheromone lures. The program was successful, and pesticide use reduced significantly while the boll weevil was eradicated in some...
    54 KB (6,598 words) - 21:49, 15 August 2024
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    genetically modified crops on health and the environment, the effect on pesticide resistance, the impact of such crops for farmers, and the role of the...
    307 KB (32,799 words) - 13:27, 24 August 2024
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