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pesticide
noun as in herbicide
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A new study reveals alarming risks that pesticides pose to ground-nesting bees, which are crucial for pollination and food production.
“He doesn’t have much purchase on pesticides from his perch,” Cook said.
He has said that he wants to overhaul the systems that oversee pesticides, herbicides, food additives and pharmaceuticals.
A recent study published in Cancer: An International Interdisciplinary Journal of the American Cancer Society found that 22 pesticides “showed consistent, direct associations with prostate cancer incidence” across two population cohorts.
Prosecutors believed Kwan used a pesticide called iodomethane, although multiple other poisons, including the ingredients for making ricin, were found at his home along with numerous books, recipes and terrorism manuals about toxins.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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