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Nitrates in Drinking Water Posing More Health Risks

5th October 2016
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Farm Nitrates in Drinking Water

A new report released this week from the heart of industrial farming in the US, is issuing a timely warning about the deluge of fertilizers in use by modern farms and the effects on our bodies. We already know the effects of excess nitrogen runoff from Irish dairy farms causing algae blooms on Lough Derg and other water ways. The new report from the Iowa Environmental Council has found in a review of prior research that consumption of drinking water containing higher levels of nitrates (nitrogen-based compounds usually associated with fertilizer runoff) is now linked to a number of human health effects. Those include birth defects related to brain and spinal development as well as bladder and thyroid cancers. The...

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Limerick Farms Use High Levels of MCPA Pesticide

15th July 2016
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Pesticides have been listed by the Irish EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) as potentially dangerous pollutants that may pose a significant risk to the water environment throughout the Republic of Ireland. Although pesticides and herbicides are a very important tool used by farmers in modern agriculture, they also pose a threat to human and animal health due to off-site migration and their detrimental effects on surface water and groundwater quality. Furthermore, the introduction of new products using new formulas or new ingredients in the manufacture of pesticides could result in diffuse inputs of new pollutants into the environment and the resultant environmental consequences are barely understood. Computed data shows that MCPA, Glyphosate, Chlorothalonil, Mecoprop-P, Chlormequat and Mancozeb are the six most...

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