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Pesticides & Health
EWG Cord Blood Summary 2005
In a study spearheaded by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) in collaboration with Commonweal, researchers at two major laboratories found an average of 200 industrial chemicals and pollutants in umbilical cord blood from 10 babies born in August and September of 2004 in U.S. hospitals.

Harvard School of Public Health Study Pesticide Exposure Associated with Parkinson's
In the first large-scale, prospective study to examine possible links between chronic, lowdose exposure to pesticides and Parkinson’s disease (PD), researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have shown that individuals reporting exposure to pesticides had a 70 percent higher incidence of PD than those not reporting exposure.
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