Temik
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Temik, the active ingredient is aldicarb, is a pesticide now owned and manufactured by Bayer CropScience, but was formerly owned and produced by the now infamous Union Carbide. It is used as a pesticide to protect a range of edible and none edible agricultural and horticultural crops worldwide. One of its precursors, methyl isothiocyanate, was involved in a mass poisoning incident at a production facility in Bhopal, India, that resulted in hundreds of deaths. (When owned and produced by Union Carbide and which event precipitaed the sale and eventual demise of that company).
In the summer of 1985, a more minor incident involving nearly 1000 people in the western United States and Canada were poisoned by residue of Temik in watermelons. Their symptoms included nausea, vomiting, blurred vision and muscle weakness. Although no one died, some of the victims were seriously ill and two women later gave birth to stillborn babies. This incident received far more press coverage because the affected people were US citizens and not poor Indian people who were expendable.
It remains an extremely effective material where resistence to organophosphate insecticides is found and is extremely important in potato production where it is used for ther control of soil borne nematodes. It is manufactured and used as a granular material because of its high level of dermal toxicity. Its weakness is its high level of solubility which restricts its use in many crops.