The Environmental Working Group ranks produce by pesticide residue, naming apples, celery and strawberries the most contaminated and onions, sweet corn and pineapple the cleanest, while stressing that eating conventional produce beats eating none.
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Prenatal exposure to pesticides linked to lower IQ in children
In a birth-cohort study of Latino farmworker families in California, children whose mothers had the highest urinary organophosphate metabolite levels during pregnancy scored about 7 IQ points lower at age 7 than those with the lowest exposure.
Environment
Monsanto’s Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health
Plant pathologist Don Huber traced severe Sudden Death Syndrome in an Iowa soybean field to the strip where a glyphosate-based herbicide had killed off alfalfa the previous season, while the part planted to sweet corn stayed healthy. Damage was worst at row ends, where applicators overlapped.
Environment
Pesticide, flame retardant linked to ADHD
A study in Environmental Health Perspectives of 300 Mexican-American children found higher organophosphate pesticide exposure during pregnancy was significantly associated with attention problems at age five. A Harvard study is also cited linking prenatal organochlorine exposure to ADHD.
Environment
Prenatal pesticide exposure linked to high ADHD risk
In a study of more than 300 children near Salinas, California, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, mothers' urinary organophosphate pesticide metabolites during pregnancy were significantly associated with attention problems at age five, though not at age 3.5.
Environment
Pesticides linked to high risk of ADHD in children
A Pediatrics study of 1,139 children aged 8 to 15 found those with high urinary organophosphate pesticide levels were about twice as likely to have ADHD as children with undetectable levels, and a tenfold rise in one pesticide class was linked to 50 percent higher risk.
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