Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Methyl iodide, a highly toxic pesticide intended for large-scale plantings of ...

I proposed the use of methyl iodide because it will not destroy the ozone layer as does methyl bromide, the fumigant it replaces. Much like other potent materials that are part of our everyday lives, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Pesticides usually do their bug killing away from public view. But one such poison, a ...

AT THE BEGINNING of October, the Environmental Protection Agency approved the use of the highly toxic and controversial fumigant methyl iodide to control soil-borne diseases and pests, primarily in ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 23, 2011) A California farm growing chile peppers has become the first in the state of California to use the highly toxic and controversial soil fumigant methyl iodide. Despite ...

Despite protests, the EPA approved the use of this potent poison years ago, but a lawsuit moving through the courts could change that. When researchers want to intentionally create cancerous cells in ...

When Arysta LifeScience abruptly pulled methyl iodide off the U.S. market this week, it cited the “economic viability” of the controversial fumigant, which is used to sterilize soil before crops are ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 28, 2012) Earlier this year the maker of the fumigant methyl iodide indicated it would stop producing the toxic chemical. Now, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...

California strawberry growers will be allowed to use a potent pesticide listed by the state as a known cancer-causing chemical despite vocal opposition from public health experts, environmentalists ...

We hear a lot about recalls these days. But last night it wasn’t ground turkey, cantaloupes, or peanut butter that was taken off the market. It was one of the most hotly contested pesticides in recent ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 263, No. 1312 (Aug. 22, 1961), pp. 51-57 (9 pages) The combustion of gaseous methyl iodide has been ...

“It is not scientifically credible to select a value or assumption from one (risk assessment calculation) and combine it with a value or assumption from another,” the scientist wrote. Methyl iodide, a ...