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Wikipedia claims that "Some states, including California, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, and Oregon, have banned chlorpyrifos on food grown and sold in their jurisdictions. Those bans remain in effect." It's also 100% banned in foods sold in EU area.

So, not that hard to avoid depending on where you live. Apparently corn, soybeans, wheat, fruit trees are some of the most common crops it's used on.

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Looks like banned here in Canada, too. But only since December 2022.

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications...

Do you got a source that chlorpyrifos is banned in foods sold in EU?

A quick search seems to indicate that imported food can still have been grown with chlorpyrifos: https://www.eurofins.de/food-analysis/food-news/food-testing...

Since we import a fair bit of vegetables and fruit during winter, we may still consume it here in the EU area.

Also, Ascenza Agro and Industries Afrasa that sell chlorpyrifos based products recently tried to overturn this ban, but luckily were not able to: https://www.env-health.org/victory-for-health-european-gener...

It is banned in the EU, "contaminated" goods tend to be caught by the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed.

Apparently it’s still allowed in Australia for agricultural uses. That might change this year.

https://www.apvma.gov.au/resources/chemicals-news/chlorpyrif...

Corn: It was often used to protect against rootworms and other pests.

Soybeans: For controlling various insects such as aphids and beetles.

Fruit trees: Including apples, oranges, and stone fruits to manage pests like codling moth and citrus thrips.

Vegetables: Such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and other leafy vegetables to combat caterpillars and other insect larvae.

Almonds and nuts: To protect against a range of insect pests. Cotton: Used for bollworms, aphids, and other pests affecting cotton crops.

If it’s banned in all those places, does that have a knock-on effect of limiting its profitability thereby causing the market to produce less of it to sell elsewhere?

It still seems to be exported :(

Europe shipping banned pesticide linked to child brain damage to Global South https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2023/03/28/eu-banned-pestic...

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