pesticide report* :
found "that more than 90% of U.S. residents carry a mixture of pesticides in their bodies. Many of these chemicals are linked to health effects such as cancer, birth defects and neurological problems."
Children sometimes get worse exposures than adults do because they are smaller.
"Another study focused on chemical exposures infants received before they were born.
"they tested fetal cord blood of 10 healthy infants born at various locations around the U.S. in 2004, revealing exposures to a total of 287 chemicals. Among the most pervasive pesticides found in newborns were hexachlorobenzene, dieldrin and DDT (and its contaminants and byproducts). "
K- those pesticides all produce neurological symptoms...
PANNA issued a set of recommendations based on findings from the CDC study. These include:
- Corporations like Bayer CropScience that continue to distribute organochlorine pesticide products should withdraw them immediately from the U.S. market.
- Policymakers should use CDC's biomonitoring data to help develop policies that better protect public health, and particularly children.
- CDC should make more detailed data (such as location and timing of sampling and occupational information) publicly available to help policymakers set priorities and evaluate impacts of state-level policies already in place, such as California's ban of lindane for pharmaceutical use.
- Consumers should choose organic food and pesticide-free household and hygiene products to protect their families and support markets for healthy alternatives.
notes:
Organochlorines - are known to persist in the environment, build up in people's bodies, and are passed from mother to child in the womb and through breastfeeding.
[Many nations have banned them, not Canada or the USA. ]
Synthetic Pyrethroids are "un-needed", as there is a naturally occuring form extracted from chrysanthemums that is less harmfull. Wherever we see a dangerous chemical that is patentable, they choose that over the safer ones, which may be natural and therefore not patentable{less profits].
Exposure to Pyrethroids can produce neurotoxic effects, vomiting, diarrhea and a tingling sensation on the skin (paresthesias). Pyrethroids are also suspected endocrine disruptors and possible carcinogens, and as a group are the second most common cause of pesticide poisoning reported
Be a wise consumer, just don't buy it if it doesn't say organic. Since they don't have to label food for if it was grown with dangerous chemicals or not, we have to assume it IS poisen. Would you choose to save money by consuming poisen?
Banning these chemicals would result in less health care costs in the future, and untold amount of suffering would be avoided.
Often, pesticide exposures result in disabling pains and undiagnosed chronic illnesses, lowered brain function, etc. - things that destroy the quality of life, but are not obvious to the doctors, and victims often languish in silence and are unsure of what is wrong [a very very awful situation for anyone].
* note that these reports were done in the USA, but Canadians can expect very similiar results here. {Canada and the USA generally refuse to ban the same pesticides]
http://www.panna.org/resources/documents/cdcRelease2005Data.dv.html
http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/
found "that more than 90% of U.S. residents carry a mixture of pesticides in their bodies. Many of these chemicals are linked to health effects such as cancer, birth defects and neurological problems."
Children sometimes get worse exposures than adults do because they are smaller.
"Another study focused on chemical exposures infants received before they were born.
"they tested fetal cord blood of 10 healthy infants born at various locations around the U.S. in 2004, revealing exposures to a total of 287 chemicals. Among the most pervasive pesticides found in newborns were hexachlorobenzene, dieldrin and DDT (and its contaminants and byproducts). "
K- those pesticides all produce neurological symptoms...
PANNA issued a set of recommendations based on findings from the CDC study. These include:
- Corporations like Bayer CropScience that continue to distribute organochlorine pesticide products should withdraw them immediately from the U.S. market.
- Policymakers should use CDC's biomonitoring data to help develop policies that better protect public health, and particularly children.
- CDC should make more detailed data (such as location and timing of sampling and occupational information) publicly available to help policymakers set priorities and evaluate impacts of state-level policies already in place, such as California's ban of lindane for pharmaceutical use.
- Consumers should choose organic food and pesticide-free household and hygiene products to protect their families and support markets for healthy alternatives.
notes:
Organochlorines - are known to persist in the environment, build up in people's bodies, and are passed from mother to child in the womb and through breastfeeding.
[Many nations have banned them, not Canada or the USA. ]
Synthetic Pyrethroids are "un-needed", as there is a naturally occuring form extracted from chrysanthemums that is less harmfull. Wherever we see a dangerous chemical that is patentable, they choose that over the safer ones, which may be natural and therefore not patentable{less profits].
Exposure to Pyrethroids can produce neurotoxic effects, vomiting, diarrhea and a tingling sensation on the skin (paresthesias). Pyrethroids are also suspected endocrine disruptors and possible carcinogens, and as a group are the second most common cause of pesticide poisoning reported
Be a wise consumer, just don't buy it if it doesn't say organic. Since they don't have to label food for if it was grown with dangerous chemicals or not, we have to assume it IS poisen. Would you choose to save money by consuming poisen?
Banning these chemicals would result in less health care costs in the future, and untold amount of suffering would be avoided.
Often, pesticide exposures result in disabling pains and undiagnosed chronic illnesses, lowered brain function, etc. - things that destroy the quality of life, but are not obvious to the doctors, and victims often languish in silence and are unsure of what is wrong [a very very awful situation for anyone].
* note that these reports were done in the USA, but Canadians can expect very similiar results here. {Canada and the USA generally refuse to ban the same pesticides]
http://www.panna.org/resources/documents/cdcRelease2005Data.dv.html
http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/
