Archive for January, 2006

EPA to Allow Pesticide Testing on Orphans & Mentally Handicapped Children

This is outrageous. From Organic Consumers Association: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is just days away from publishing a new federal regulation that will allow the testing of chemicals and pesticides on human subjects. On August 2, 2005, Congress had mandated the EPA create a rule that permanently bans chemical testing on pregnant women and [...]

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Pesticides Raise Child Risk of Leukaemia – Study

LONDON – Exposure to pesticides in the womb or as a child can double the risk of developing acute leukaemia, French scientists said on Tuesday. They discovered that children born to women who used insecticides in the home while pregnant and after the birth were nearly twice as likely as other youngsters to develop leukaemia. [...]

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