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Servise, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Canadian Wildlife Service, and the Argentine government cooperated on training and field surveys; the Argentines were regulating pesticides. The Argentine agricultural agencies cracked down on the use of monocrotophos and launched an aggressive education campaign aimed at farmers, while U.S. toxicological experts began training their Argentine counterparts in the exacting lab procedures required to monitor pesticides in the environment." Later on,Ciba-Geigy and three other manufacturers agreed to pull monocrotophos off the market in certain areas of the pampas, add warning labels, and help educate the farmers on alternative ways to get control locusts. "Ciba, now known as Novartis, later agreed to entirely phase out proguction and sale of monocrotophos and five other OP pesticides."<br><br><br><br>Lucas Berrigan<br>Eastern shore, HRM, <br>Nova Scotia.<div>&nbsp;</div>&l I've appreciated all the discussion on this topic including the very valuable side information on Indian meal moths, found in a batch of seeds last year and which, most thankfully I now appreciate, I immediately threw out! I've opened some sunflower seeds and verified that there are kernels inside. I will also buy some kernels and give them a try. I even bought a new feeder in case there is a problem with my existing ones that is not evident, despite a thorough cleaning - but still no consumption. Thanks also Lucas for the synopsis of Chapter 8; we're clearly not into anything that drastic - but it still a somewhat troubling mystery why such a basic staple as sunflower seeds, which I normally go through many 20kg bags of every winter are not being touched. Eleanor Lindsay
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