Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 13, 2012. A study has found that the children of flower plantation workers in Ecuador are neurologically affecxted by the pesticide residues that their parents unwittingly carry home on their clothes, tools, and skin. The study documents significantly reduced activity for the essential enzyme acetycholinesterase (AChE) in children whose parents work on flower plantations compared to others whose parents do not. The two main classes of pesticides that the researchers identify as used…
