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Article Periodic Thank You European Commission issues EU-wide rules on pesticide ingredients

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The PPPR framework governs the authorization, sale, and use of PPPs, establishing a pre-market approval process for active substances – the pesticide components which control pests, weeds, and plant diseases – and for synergists and safeners before they can be allowed for use in PPPs.

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Everything Wrong with Mouse Studies (Kinda)

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In 2009, a small group of Dutch biologists rounded up some lab mice, stabbed them with needles, and harvested their blood. They had “seen no evidence of [graft-versus-host disease] in any patient,” wrote surgeon Steven A. There are even differences in how their genomic DNA is packaged inside of neurons.

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