URO TODAY: Canadian researchers have found significant links between prostate cancer and a range of agricultural and gardening chemicals also used at various times in New Zealand. These include DDT, simazine, lindane, dichlone, dinoseb amine, malathion, endosulfan, 2,4-D, 2,4-DB, and carbaryl. READ MORE>
Archive for the ‘Insecticides’ Category
Denials all round on use of prostate cancer-causing apple spray in NZ
Posted in Insecticides, tagged apple spray, cancer research, cancer-causing spray, Kepone, NewsWire, prostablog, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, Whitireia Journalism School on September 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
NEWSWIRE NZ: NZ scientific bodies, apple growers and others say they know nothing about the possible use of cancer-causing apply spray Kepone here in the 60s and early 70s. READ MORE>
Apple spray used in 60s may have caused prostate cancer in Kiwi men
Posted in Insecticides, tagged banana plant pest, cancer and infertility, cancer research, catheter, chlordecone, French West Indian men, French West Indies, H.V. Brewerton and D.A. Slade, heavy residues of spray, insecticide residue, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Kepone, known carcinogen, leaf roller, mystery illness, Nelson-produced apples, New Zealand agricultural scientists, NZ apples, organochlorine, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, Sturmer apples, widespread environmental damage on August 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
PROSTABLOG NZ: An insecticide used in New Zealand to control an apple pest during the 60s and early 70s may have greatly increased prostate cancer risk. The insecticide – an organochlorine marketed under the name Kepone – caused such widespread environmental damage the US maker stopped production in 1976 and the World Health Organisation later [...]









