Pesticide Impacts on
Human Health

Dietary Exposure

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• "Kids' pesticide levels unsafe" ... children in agricultural communities are being exposed to pesticides at higher levels than federal regulators consider safe, a University of Washington study indicates, by Warren King, Seattle Times Medical Reporter, Seattle Times, April 25, 2000

• Environmental Working Group Reports (EWG)
  • Overexposed: Organophosphate Insecticides in Children's Food
  • Forbidden Fruit: Illegal Pesticides in the U.S. Food Supply
  • Pesticides in Baby Food
  • A Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce
  • Just Add Water
  • Weed Killers by the Glass
  • In the Drink

• "Pesticides on Produce Leave Residue of Worry" Patricia Wen, Boston Globe, June 16, 1997

• Excerpts from "How to Avoid Pesticides", Nutrition Action Newsletter June 1997

• "EPA Offers Thin Shield of Safety"   Dan Fagin and Marianne Lavelleby for Newsday

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Last Updated on 5/1/00
By Karen Lutz
Email: karen@hillnet.com