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                    [ArticleID] => 1416684
                    [Title] => FPA bans use of technical grade endosulfan
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The Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA) has banned the use of technical grade endosulfan and its related alpha isomers and formulations as pesticide, Food security chief Francis Pangilinan announced yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 685722 [Title] => India's top court orders ban on pesticide [Summary] =>

India's Supreme Court has ordered a two-month ban on the production and sale of a widely used pesticide that can cause nerve damage to humans and wildlife.

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-14 15:46:47 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 675684 [Title] => Permanently ban endosulfan, gov't urged [Summary] =>

Over 135 groups have asked the government to impose a permanent ban on endosulfan, a highly toxic pesticide, and to actively support a global move to have it eliminated for good to protect public health and the environment.

[DatePublished] => 2011-04-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1685860 [AuthorName] => Rhodina Villanueva [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 618249 [Title] => Government quizzed on toxic pesticide recovered from sunken ship [Summary] =>

A toxic waste watchdog yesterday asked the government to issue a report on the status of some 10 metric tons of endosulfan, a highly toxic pesticide, retrieved from the M/V Princess of the Stars, which capsized off Sibuyan Island in Romblon on June 21, 2008.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1685860 [AuthorName] => Rhodina Villanueva [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 583471 [Title] => Green groups push for return of pesticide shipment [Summary] =>

Concerned environmentalists and health groups urged the outgoing Arroyo administration yesterday to ship out some 10 metric tons of the highly toxic pesticide endosulfan back to its Israeli manufacturer.

[DatePublished] => 2010-06-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1685860 [AuthorName] => Rhodina Villanueva [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 446398 [Title] => Pag-ban sa Endosulfan gihangop [Summary] =>

CEBU, Philippines -  Gihangop ni Cebu City Agriculturist Joelito Baclayon ang disisyon sa nasudnong kagamhanan pag-ban na sa endosulfan.

[DatePublished] => 2009-03-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Banat Balita [SectionUrl] => balita [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 445204 [Title] => DENR orders temporary ban on endosulfan [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines - Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Jose L. Atienza has ordered a temporary ban on the importation, distribution and use of endosulfan, a highly toxic synthetic pesticide used on food and non-food crops.

[DatePublished] => 2009-03-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 407043 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Toxic cargo [Summary] =>

We should count our blessings and give thanks that the pesticide endosulfan, transported on the Princess of the Stars, did not leak out of its packaging in a 40-foot shipping container as the passenger ferry sank off Romblon last June and sat for several months on the sea floor.

[DatePublished] => 2008-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/647/startoonthumbed3.gif ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 405743 [Title] => LOCAL NEWS: BFAR to lift fishing ban in Romblon waters on Oct. 12 [Summary] => The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is expected to lift this weekend the fishing ban in the waters off ... [DatePublished] => 2008-10-08 16:22:39 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 404420 [Title] => Damage claims against Sulpicio now total P227 M, says PAO [Summary] => The Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) reported that government lawyers have already filed 20 suits in behalf of the ... [DatePublished] => 2008-10-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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