Iraq may have used these credits to buy pesticides to use in chemical weapons.
For this reason, potential pesticide uses for the compounds are being explored.
The minerals and any pesticides used to treat it decompose and eventually seep into groundwater supplies [source: Colt, Bell and Johnson].
And the newer pesticides are more benign environmentally and used more carefully.
A pesticide usually used as a vapor by libraries to kill insects, the chemical can be fatal in large doses and can cause rashes, numbness, speech difficulties, convulsions and stomach pains.
Technological advances, such as genetically modified (GM) plants, may have a stronger resistance to pests and could eliminate pesticides use in the future.
The Environmental Protection Agency had been faced with banning pesticide uses on raw produce so that it could carry out bans on processed foods.
A third company said that "dogs may get a rash or irritated" from exposure to diazinon, the pesticide most widely used on lawns, "but they will only feel a little itchy."
Gaseous pesticides such as fumigant pesticides and nearly every other pesticide used today moves easily through the air, and into communities where people live, work, and play.
The fight against locusts in Africa this year has set off a dispute over which pesticides to use.