The question is not are they going to ban these practices...WHY were they EVER allowed in the first place?

A US EPA "Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study" (CHEERS) was approved to assess children's exposure to pesticides in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida.

The two-year study will monitor developmental changes in babies, from birth to age 3, who are exposed to pesticides in their homes. Included in the pesticides and chemicals to be monitored are:

Fluorinated pesticides:
Bifenthrin, Fipronil, Lambda-cyhalothrin, and Cyfluthrin I, II, III, IV, total;
Fluorinated chemicals:
4-fluoro-3-phenoxybenzoic acid and the perfluorinated PFOS and PFOA.

Should pesticides be tested on people?
EPA says yes, and Congress says no.


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The US Chemical Industry wants the EPA's go-ahead to use humans as lab rats for pesticide safety testing. Offering people money to be intentionally dosed with poisons could prey on the vulnerability of low-income people.

The US Congress recently blocked an EPA initiative to accept pesticide dosing studies conducted on humans. Early in 2005, the EPA had announced its intention to accept such studies from industry on a â??case by case basisâ?ť after failing to issue regulations for such studies in keeping with a 2004 court decision.

Chemical companies, including Bayer CropScience, have asked that EPA accept their laboratory studies performed on human test subjects. Bayer and other companies, many of which have research facilities here in North Carolina, seek to decrease safety precautions associated with pesticide regulation by demonstrating "no adverse effects" when humans are intentionally dosed with pesticides. Some ethicists consider all testing of toxics on humans to be unethical; federal and international law state that such testing is unacceptable when its aim is to weaken public health protections, or when test subjects are not fully informed about risks, or about the aim of the study.....

well Tholiak I'm still looking for what you find funny.....
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