Children in rural communities get a “double-dose” of the pesticide chlorpyrifos from food and drift from neighboring fields
Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)—October 7, 2011. As children settle into the new school year, health professionals are demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ban the neurotoxic chemical chlorpyrifos, a pesticide used on farms throughout the country and the same chemical that the agency banned some ten years ago for use in homes.
In a letter to be…
