A 4-year old could munch 30,000 pounds of carrots every day. A 132-pound adult could eat 396,000 pounds of bananas daily. Whenever you get your haircut, you see it. It's that jar of bluish liquid that holds the combs. That's right, used combs are placed in a fungicide solution to kill any possible bacteria or germs.
Swimming pools contain pesticides, too.
They're called algaecides and they keep green globs of algae from growing in the pool. In addition to its use in pools, chlorine is added to drinking water to kill harmful bacteria. Another type of pesticide is used regularly in restaurants, hospitals and hotels. Typically when we think of pesticides, we think of farms, lawns, termite control companies, roadside weed control and sometimes bug sprays used around the home and garden. We don't always understand these products, but we recognize them as necessary.