WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency for the first time is establishing criteria for tests by pesticide makers on human subjects.Susan Hazen, the EPA’s principal deputy assistant ...

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration announced Friday a temporary ban on the use of human tests for setting pesticide regulations and asked the National Academy of Sciences to review the scientific ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The Environmental Protection Agency no longer will allow legal guardians to provide consent for their wards to participate as test subjects in pesticide testing by outside ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to that pesticide companies be allowed to test their products on humans. The proposal backed by chemical companies has drawn intense opposition from ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Pregnant women will not be allowed to participate in third-party pesticide testing submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency, according new rules proposed by the agency as ...

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court Tuesday directed the government to resume considering the results of tests on human subjects as it determines acceptable exposure levels to toxic pesticides. The U ...

In deciding whether to approve specific pesticides, the Environmental Protection Agency is using data from two dozen industry tests that intentionally exposed people to poisons, including one ...

The Environmental Protection Agency for the first time is establishing criteria for tests by pesticide makers on human subjects, but the proposal immediately was criticized by lawmakers who demanded ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The researchers exposed nine species of frog and toad tadpoles to endosulfan levels ...

Evidence that one in five Washington farmworkers handling pesticides suffered excessive exposure to the chemicals has farmworker advocates pushing for stricter safety regulations and a ban on ...

More than half of food tested by the U.S. government for pesticide residues last year showed detectable levels of pesticides, though most were within levels the government considers to be safe, ...