Below we have just listed a few of these pesticides (only one category of deadly chemicals) to show you what to expect when you are dining our or purchasing food from non-organic sources. Initial symptoms are often the beginning of the looming catastrophic disease to come.
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Pesticide | Where Found | Effects & Risks | |
Chloride | Known groundwater pollutant | Highly toxic to crustaceans, fish, insects, mollusks, plankton. | |
Propoxur | A carbamate insecticide used to contort ants, roaches, etc. Also used in shelf paper. | A Probable human carcinogen, likely residues in food from crack and crevice treatments in food establishments and food processing plants. | |
Chlorpyrifos | Used on a variety of food and feed crops, golf courses, and as a mosquitocide. | This can overstimulate the nervous system causing nausea dizziness, confusion, respiratory paralysis and death. | |
Heptachlor | Water and ecological toxicity. | Hypersensitive to stimulation, prickling or creeping on the skin. Causes headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting incoordination, tremor, mental confusion, hyper-excitable state, convulsions, seizure, coma and respiratory depression. | |
Diazinon | Insecticide both for household and agricultural pest control. | Can over-stimulate the nervous system causing nausea, dizziness, confusion respiratory paralysis and death. | |
Dichlorvos | Pest control, food processing, fumigation, spray for crops | Excessive salivation sweating, muscle twitching, weakness, tremor, headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, respiratory depression, wheezing fluid in lungs. | |
O-phenylphenol | Used on a variety of food and feed crops | Highly corrosive, caustic eye, skin mouth and gastrointestinal injuries, nausea vomiting & diarrhea, hypotension, myocardial failure, pulmonary edema, neurological changes, liver and renal toxicity, methemoglobinemia and hemolysis. | Vol 24 Issue 3 Page 20