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.
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.
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