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Article: Heavy pesticide body burden.(News: dispatches from around the world about healthy, sustainable living)
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- Natural Life
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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New research reveals that government and industry have failed to safeguard public health from pesticide exposures.
While Canada refuses to monitor the chemical and pesticide body burdens of its citizens, many U.S. residents carry toxic pesticides in their bodies above government assessed "acceptable" levels, according to a report from Pesticide Action Network North America (PAN), Sierra Club of Canada and Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides(CAP).
Chemical Trespass: Pesticides in Our Bodies and Corporate Accountability makes public for the first time an analysis of pesticide-related data collected by the US-based Centers for Disease Control and ...