Toxins for tots.As reported in E's September 2001 cover story "Childhood at Risk," human beings under 12 are most vulnerable to toxins in the environment, given that relative to their weight and size, they consume more food, water and air than adults and spend more time closer to the ground. A recent analysis by the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. (CDC See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice. CDC - Control Data Corporation ) confirms that children are most at risk from pesticides in America's land, water and atmosphere. For example, the average six-to 11-year-old is exposed to the nerve-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos at four times the level considered "acceptable" for long-term exposure by the EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. . "The data show a failure in how we protect people from toxic pesticides," says PAN's Kristin Schafer. San Francisco-based PAN, which advocates for alternatives to pesticides, found that the average person in the study carried 13 of the 23 pesticides evaluated. Many of the pesticides have been linked to infertility infertility, inability to conceive or carry a child to delivery. The term is usually limited to situations where the couple has had intercourse regularly for one year without using birth control. , birth detects, cancer and other serious ailments. CONTACT: Pesticide Action Network (North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. ), (415)981-1771, www.panna.org. |
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