According to the US-based Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education (FASE) the United States exported 25m pounds of banned pesticides between 1992 and 1994. Most of these went to developing countries and included 300 tonnes of DDT to Peru (1992). A further 1.1bn pounds of unidentified pesticides were exported by companies which had obtained permission from the US Treasury Department to withold their names from shipping records. The 1992-94 shipments also included mirex, widely banned and thought to be obsolete.

There is no European equivalent of the US shipping records analysed by FASE, but UK records are now being kept in greater detail and may provide greater accountability in the future.

Despite growing evidence that integrated pest management and organic and sustainable farming practices can be as or more cost effective, both UK exports and world use of chemical pesticides are still increasing. Agrochemical corporations are cementing their markets by introducing strains of crops which have been genetically engineered to resist or incorporate their own pesticides , increasing both consumption and dependency.