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- noun A specific
organophosphate insecticide, having the chemical formula C2H8NO2PS
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Examples
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Japanese police detected traces of an organophosphate called methamidophos inside packaging which is often used in China as a pesticide but is rarely used in Japan.
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Researchers have injected the pesticide called methamidophos into cardboard boxes using a syringe, and examined how the pesticide stuck to dumplings and their packaging inside the boxes.
Japan Probe 2009
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Researchers have injected the pesticide called methamidophos into cardboard boxes using a syringe, and examined how the pesticide stuck to dumplings and their packaging inside the boxes.
Latest Articles 2009
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But the company sold 570 tons of rice containing a toxic organophosphate pesticide called methamidophos to a rice wholesaler in Mie Prefecture.
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Traces of methamidophos, an insecticide banned in Japan, were found in the dumplings, on the packaging and in the vomit of the people who were sickened in December 2007 and January 2008 after eating two separate brands of dumplings made at a factory in northern China's Hebei province.
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Traces of methamidophos, an insecticide banned in Japan, were found in the dumplings, on the packaging and in the vomit of the people who were sickened in December 2007 and January 2008 after eating two separate brands of dumplings made at a factory in northern China's Hebei province.
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Traces of methamidophos, an insecticide banned in Japan, were found in the dumplings, on the packaging and in the vomit of the people who were sickened in December 2007 and January 2008 after eating two separate brands of dumplings made at a factory in northern China's Hebei province.
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The rice in question was tainted with the pesticide methamidophos at concentrations that exceed government regulations but don't pose a significant health threat, according to the ministry.
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At least 10 people suffered vomiting and diarrhea after eating dumplings with traces of the pesticide methamidophos, including a 5-year-old girl who fell into a coma, the ministry said.
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They contained traces of the pesticide methamidophos and sickened at least 10 people.
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