PESTICIDES LINKED TO HEALTH EFFECTS

SAN FRANCISCO (July 21, 2005)--Scientists at Pesticide Action Network North America analyzed pesticide data in a study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), finding that more than 90% of those tested carried a mixture of pesticides in their bodies. Many of these chemicals have been linked to health effects such as cancer, birth defects and neurological problems...Continue

Professor Dominique Belpomme, a medical oncologist from the University of Paris, has new research showing that environmental exposures to pesticides and other contaminants are now more significant as a cause of cancer ...Continue

Study Finds Over One-Quarter of U.S. School Districts Adopt Plans to Restrict Children's Exposure to Pesticides...Continue

Pesticide residues were detected in 49 of the apple samples tested. In one sample, a residue of the carcinogenic pesticide, captan, was illegally high. According to the official analysis, it was...Continue