Abstract: Analyzing data from US Customs shipping records, Researchers at the Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education found that more than 338 million pounds of hazardous pesticides were exported from US ports during 1995 and 1996. The majority went to destinations in the developing world. During this period, at least 21 million pound of pesticides which are forbidden to be used in the United States were exported. These estimates must be viewed as conservative in view of the fact that specific names were omitted from the shipping records for more than two-thirds of the pesticides exported. In fact, between 1992 and 1996, more than 2 billion pounds of pesticides left US ports with their specific chemical names omitted from publicly accessible shipping records-a rate well over 500 tons per day. View and/or print a copy of the report and world map in Acrobat PDF format.