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What is a pesticide?

What is a pesticide? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.
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The cause was found to be the high amount of pesticide residue on vegetables.
Earlier this year a young child died after consuming a tiny amount of ant powder containing the pesticide lindane.
Most fluoride poisonings have been the result of rodenticide and pesticide ingestion.
As a result, it is almost impossible to know the amount of pesticide residues on supermarket produce.
Tests have found about one in seven UK lettuces with above approved levels of a pesticide, the Government announced yesterday.
This echoes the wave of such birth deformities following the US's use of the pesticide Agent Orange as a chemical weapon in the Vietnam War.

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