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Pesticide updates from the EPA

27 Nov 2022February 3, 2023
The EPA Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) regularly shares updates via this link (you can also sign up for updates). Over the last three months, the OPP tackled multiple issues,…
Recent News

EPA’s plan to keep up with ESA

22 Apr 2022April 30, 2022
Workplan reference: https://www.epa.gov/endangered-species/epas-workplan-and-progress-toward-better-protections-endangered-species#workplan Feature image: https://www.epa.gov/endangered-species The EPA recently announced that it will evaluate the potential effects of all new pesticide active ingredients on federally endangered or threatened (i.e., listed)…
Basics of Toxicology

Designing good ecotoxicology studies

17 Nov 2021November 17, 2021
Featured image: A conceptual model to explain how monarch butterflies could be exposed to insecticides used in Midwest agriculture. Figure obtained from Krishnan et al. (2021). As an insect toxicologist,…
Special Topics

Can exposure to insecticides impact monarch butterfly conservation?

24 Jun 2021December 29, 2021
Featured image: Monarch caterpillar photo was taken by Aaron Eckley at Iowa State University. This was originally published by Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium: https://monarch.ent.iastate.edu/can-exposure-insecticides-impact-monarch-butterfly-conservation. The question posed in the title…
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Discovery of a novel neonicotinoid insecticide effect

30 Jan 2021December 29, 2021
Featured image was taken from Wikimedia commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lepidoptera_Diversity.jpg This article (slightly edited below) was published in Department of Entomology newsletter at Iowa State University: https://www.ent.iastate.edu/department-entomology-alumni-news-2021 Niranjana Krishnan writes: I started…
Tox21

STEPping into the world of computational toxicology

21 Nov 2020December 29, 2021
Featured image was obtained from Wikimedia Commons and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. This report was provided to the Society of Toxicology following my selection as…
Recent News

Are everywhere chemicals contributing to lifestyle diseases?

30 Jan 2020December 29, 2021
Featured image: Some phthalates have been banned in children’s toys like these. Image source: Wikimedia commons  This post was originally published in Envirobites Article: Radke EG, Galizia A, Thayer KA, Cooper…
NAS reports

Assessing risk to endangered species

5 Jan 2020February 24, 2022
Featured image: The Golden Toad was last recorded in 1989. Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (obtained from Wikimedia Commons) The “Assessing Risk to Endangered and Threatened Species from Pesticides”…
NAS reports

Science and Decisions

2 Nov 2019February 9, 2020
The “Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment” National Academy Sciences (NAS) report was released in 2009. The report can be read or downloaded here for free: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12209/science-and-decisions-advancing-risk-assessment. All images used…
Special Topics

What’s true when it comes to chemical regulations in the U.S.

20 Oct 2019November 27, 2021
Given the details and complexities of chemical regulation, it is not surprising that there is some confusion over what it entails. It took me several classes and specific readings to…
NAS reports

Preparing for future biotech products

16 Oct 2019January 5, 2020
The "Preparing for Future Products of Biotechnology" National Academy Sciences (NAS) report was released in 2017. The report can be read or downloaded here for free: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24605/preparing-for-future-products-of-biotechnology. All images used…
NAS reports

What this section (NAS reports) hopes to achieve

15 Oct 2019December 29, 2021
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is an independent, non-profit organization that consists of U.S.'s leading researchers. It was founded by the U.S. government in 1863 and was charged to…

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