Environmental

New Safeguards Seek to Protect Farmworkers from Pesticides

EPA proposes update to Worker Protection Standard for agricultural pesticides after more than 20 years of problems

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 20, 2014. In North Carolina and Florida, three babies born in 2005 brought to light in the most painful way what pesticide exposure does to farmworkers and their children. All three babies were born with severe birth defects after their mothers had worked together on tomato farms for the produce company Ag-Mart in both states. State…

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