Pesticides & Health

This statement presents the position of the American Academy of Pediatrics on pesticides. Pesticides are a collective term for chemicals intended to kill unwanted insects, plants, molds, and rodents.

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.

Pesticides are, by definition, toxic. They are associated with a number of serious health problems in humans and animals, and they also harm the environment

Hormones are known to be important in breast cancer. Research is evolving which suggests there are times over a woman’s lifespan when she is more at risk from exposures to things in her environment.

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Hormones are known to be important in breast cancer. Research is evolving which suggests there are times over a woman’s lifespan when she is more at risk from exposures to things in her environment.

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Hormones are known to be important in breast cancer. Research is evolving which suggests there are times over a woman’s lifespan when she is more at risk from exposures to things in her environment.

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Through industrial applications, consumer products and food, water and air, Americans are exposed daily to these cancer-causing compounds, which invade the body and build up in blood and urine.

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.

Hormones are known to be important in breast cancer. Research is evolving which suggests there are times over a woman’s lifespan when she is more at risk from exposures to things in her environment.

Hormones are known to be important in breast cancer. Research is evolving which suggests there are times over a woman’s lifespan when she is more at risk from exposures to things in her environment.

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Hormones are known to be important in breast cancer. Research is evolving which suggests there are times over a woman’s lifespan when she is more at risk from exposures to things in her environment.

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Hormones are known to be important in breast cancer. Research is evolving which suggests there are times over a woman’s lifespan when she is more at risk from exposures to things in her environment.

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