If you just snack on fruits and vegetables all day, this is the way to do it. Cut up some vegetables and pack them in your lunchbox with some hummus. 1  Fruit: 1 cup cantaloupe, 1 cup champagne grapes. 2  Vegetables: 1 cup sugar snap peas, 1 yellow bell pepper, 1 stalk celery.
Pesticides are substances used to repel, kill, or control animals (insecticides) or plants (herbicides) that are considered to be pests. There are different types of pesticides, which include synthetic pesticides and biopesticides (Figure 1). Pesticides are used extensively in agriculture and they are also used at a lower scale in our homes and on ourselves.
Pesticides-U.S. Pesticide Regulation. Widely produced and used in the United States, pesticides are regulated by the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well as by the 50-states and U.S. territories.tates are authorized to regulate pesticides under FIFRA and state pesticide laws, some of which place more restrictive requirements on pesticides than EPA (e.g. California).