There are three ethical issues that are raised after reading the strategy used by Amvac. The first is that Amvac buys aging organochlorine and organophosphate brands from the big agrochemical corporations. The pesticides that Amvac purchase have been replaced in the other major markets around the world by safer pesticides. Second, Amvac seeks new markets to introduce the older pesticides into. Amvac introduces these pesticides to the new markets in an effort to extend the life of the product in an attempt to maximize profits from the older pesticides. Some of these new markets are foreign, which still allow broad applications which would use greater quantities of the older pesticides. Third, Amvac resists regulators that threaten to limit or
