Around 1 million pounds of malathion are used in the United States each year. The insecticide is a neurotoxin that is part of the dangerous class of old pesticides called organophosphates.
Malathion is a neurotoxin and part of a dangerous class of old pesticides called organophosphates ... to malathion “could be catastrophic” and that repeated use of the insecticide could eliminate ...
It determined the insecticide is still "acceptable for ... Young animals were more sensitive to the toxic effects of malathion, and the chemical appeared to have adverse effects on the offspring ...