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Mothers Oppose
Malathion
At MOM's
request, this page is dedicated to information about the effects of
pesticides on born and unborn children. If you get too depressed
to read the whole page, scroll right to the last entry before you leave.
This May 25th article out of Calgary confirms that the TIMING makes the poison, not the dose. Toxins hurt kids conceived in June-August: Children conceived in June, July and August, when pesticide spraying is at its peak, scored lower on achievement tests than other kids, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Toronto. World's Leaders in Pediatrics at Largest International Meeting Focused on Research in Child Health: TORONTO, May 5-8, 2007 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Prenatal exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos is associated with developmental delays in children and attention deficit hyperactivity problems. The proportion of New York City 3-yr olds showing delayed development was five times greater in the higher exposure group. Pediatrics. PEDIATRICS (Chlorpyrifos is dursban, routinely sprayed on the base of trees by teenagers wearing dursban backpacks. It's also got 'special' approval to be used as a larvicide in and around Winnipeg. Don't you feel 'special'?) All pregnant women have at least one kind of pesticide in their placenta, Women's Health News,1-Sep-2006 Exposures of Children to Organophosphate Pesticides and Their Potential Adverse Health Effects, from Environmental Health Perspectives , Vol 107, June 1999 Age dependence of organophosphate and carbamate neurotoxicity in the postnatal rat: extrapolation to the human, Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, Volume 196, Issue 2, Charles A. Vidair View Abstract The Wikipedia offers information on Poison in general, and Pesticide Poisoning in particular. The
Environmental Working Group offers amazing information on the Toxic Body
Burden of Newborns A new review about Pesticides and Children by Dr. V. Garry, University of Minnesota School of Medicine. Pesticides: Making the Right Choice for the Protection of Health and the Environment, House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, May 2000. See Chapter 6--Vulnerability of Children. Pesticides Literature Review, Ontario College of Family Physicians, April 2004. See Chapter 10, Pesticide Health Effects and Children.The special vulnerability of chilren is explained well in Child Health and the Environment--a Primer from the Canadian Partnership for Childrens' Health & Environment Intestinal Disorder in Children Born After California Spraying: Epidemiology, 3(1):32-39, January, 1992 The Natural Resources Defence Council considers pesticides to be third of the five worst environmental hazards facing our children. Read Our Children at Risk. Children face higher risks from pesticide poisoning, better protection and awareness raising needed, UN agencies say, 5 October 2004, Rome See this study linking rising childhood leukemia and environmental exposures. A new report by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation profiles childrens' health and the relative risk of industrial chemicals. Using pollution data from Canada and the United States, the report focuses on chemicals associated with cancer, neurological and developmental damage, as well as learning and behavioral changes. The report utilizes a toxicity weighting methodology to highlight the relative risk of these chemicals compared to standard volume information. Read more about industrial chemicals. More and more, studies are looking into the effects of combined exposures and repeated low-dose exposures. Let's hope that soon regulatory decision-makers will look at them, too. Read this study in Environmental Health Perspectives that looks at some of the effects of exposures to plastics, heavy metals and pesticides. New
Thinking on neurodevelopment 2006. Environ. Health Perspectives 114
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Michael Szpir Abstract Rising diagnoses of neurodevelopmental disorders are leading scientists to take a harder look at environmental exposures in utero and during childhood that may be at least partly to blame for the rise. A number of agents, including metals, man-made chemicals, immunotoxicants, and infectious pathogens, have been implicated in neurodevelopmental effects; some researchers are also looking at the possible role of gene-environment interactions. Federal support for work in this sphere is increasing, and an expert working group recently formulated a set of best practices for studying neurodevelopmental outcomes. Challenges remain in educating the public and clinicians alike about the links between environmental insults and these disorders. Healthy baby care from The Less Toxic Guide. |
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