WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward to implement the agency’s May 2009 final rule revoking tolerances, or residue limits, for the pesticide carbofuran. EPA continues to find that dietary exposures to carbofuran from all sources combined are not safe.

Australian farmers may be forced by an international environmental treaty to stop using a dangerous insecticide that more than 60 nations have already banned. Endosulfan has been linked to breast cancer, immunosuppression and birth defects and was recently implicated in a plague of two-headed fish larvae in a Noosa River hatchery.

Reporting from Washington -- A program to test the effect of pesticides on the human hormonal system will be compromised by an Office of Management and Budget order allowing data from past studies by pesticide companies to substitute for new studies, according to some scientists involved in developing the new program.

Advanced spray notification will be one of the key discussion points as implementing controversial new European pesticides legislation begins.