Pesticide poisoning

Pesticide poisonings, where chemicals intended to control a pest affect non-target organisms such as humans, wildlife, or bees. Since label directions are specifically designed to protect applicators and other humans, wildlife, and other environmental resources; the majority of pesticide poisonings result from violations of the label directions.

A major exception to the above rule of thumb, was likely the worst single case of pesticide poisoning that ever has occurred, which came as a result of an industrial accident at a Union Carbide pesticide manufacturing plant in Bhopal, India. On the night of December 3, 1984, a leak erupted from one of the tanks of methyl isocyanate, a gas that is an intermediate step in the production of carbaryl and