Insecticide Act

Bloomquist JR (1993) Toxicology, mode of action and target site-mediated resistance to insecticides acting on chloride channels. Comp Biochem Physiol C 106 301-314... 

Federal income tax (FIT), 9 539-540 Federal Insecticide Act of 1910, 18 524 Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and... 

The chlorinated hydrocarbons such as DDT act on nerves in a manner that is still not fully understood. One of the largest classes of insecticides acts on the enzyme acetylcholinesterase of nerve synapses. 

The other reason for a prominent PTS pollution is, India is yet to formulate a comprehensive policy on pesticides and other chemicals. The Insecticides Act, 1968 does regulate the manufactures, registration, use, export and import of pesticides in the country but does not have much control on its consumers. There are many other policy decisions and Acts on environmental management in India which will be discussed later in this chapter. India has already banned the use of 9 of the 12 POPs slated for ultimate elimination from the world use in a United Nations treaty adopted in Stockholm on May 23, 2001. The three remaining POPs include PCBs, DDT and dioxins and furans. 

Agrochemicals/ Pesticides Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), United States of America Insecticide Act [Central Insecticide Board (CIB)] Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, India Control of Pesticides Act, No. 33 of 1980 Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri lanka... 

The phosphorus-based nerve gases and insecticides act by deactivating acetylcholinesterase. Note that all of these compounds have a good leaving group on the phosphorus. They react readily with the nucleophilic hydroxy group of the enzyme to form a phosphate triester in a reaction that is very similar, both in its mechanism and its product, to the reaction of an acyl chloride with an alcohol to form an ester ... 

Source Data compiled by Center for Sustainable Agriculture from U.S. EPA s Chemicals Evaluated for Carcinogenic Potential, July 2004, and from Insecticides Registered under Section 9(3) of the Insecticides Act 1968 of India, June 2005. 

Insecticide Act Regulations containing many schedules and related sections for the manufacture, safe handling, transportation, and use of pesticides in India that has been in force since 1968... 

Insecticides Acting as Ecdysone Agonists, or Blocking Molting Hormone Activity... 

The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) is the main statute under which all pesticides are distributed and sold in the United States. Federal regulation of pesticides started with the Insecticide Act of 1910, which was directed primarily toward protecting consumers from fraudulent pesticide products it remained the major law governing pesticide products for 37 years. The Insecticide Act was essentially a labeling statute and did not require registration of products or establish any significant safety standards. 

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