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 Consumer and medical groups are lobbying both State and Federal Government that may affect our health and especially those that have been shown to affect the health of our children. They are looking for alternative(s) that are commercially variable and environmentally safe.
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Pesticide levels in children twice that of adults, CDC says - By Tom Meersman, Star Tribune (Minneapolis); Published Feb. 1, 2003
Children's bodies contain twice the levels of several pesticides compared to adults, according to a national study released Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
http://www.organicconsumers.org/school/pestlevels020103.cfm
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The agricultural communities are responding to consumer demand by relying on EPA approved commercially available products that integrate both the SAR properties and micronutrients. KeyPlex meets these commercial demands.
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Exploiting Plants' Protective Proteins - By USDA, ARS; Published May 1998
Like our own bodies that valiantly fight off infections, plants also have built-in protective mechanisms.
In plants, this system can be triggered by pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins. These proteins are induced and start working when an outside enemy--an insect or a disease-causing pathogen, for example--invades the plant.
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