Trump's EPA Just Greenlighted a Pesticide Known to Damage Kids’ Brains

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In one study, published in the journal Pediatrics in December 2006, Rauh’s group looked at what effect prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos has on the cognitive and motor development of children.

The researchers found that 3-year-olds “highly exposed” to chlorpyrifos prenatally scored, on average, 6.5 points lower on a motor development test compared with children who had “low exposure” to the insecticide. They also found that the highly exposed children scored 3.3 points lower on a cognitive development test, on average, though they had less confidence in this second finding. These tests have “moderate predictive power for subsequent intelligence and school performance,” the researchers write.

 

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More science:

Published in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences in May 2012, the study found “significant abnormalities” in the morphology of brains of children who were exposed to higher levels of chlorpyrifos prenatally. The researchers add that their “findings are consistent with the effects of early developmental exposure to [chlorpyrifos] in animal models.”

 

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Yet more science:,
So what do studies say about chlorpyrifos and its effect on children and fetuses?

Some of the strongest research suggesting that chlorpyrifos does adversely affect children and fetuses comes from the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health at Columbia University. In its November 2016 report on the insecticide, the EPA paid particular attention to studies headed by Virginia Rauh, the deputy director of the Columbia Center.

All of Rauh and her colleagues’ studies relied on blood samples collected from the umbilical cords of mothers right after giving birth that measured the levels of chlorpyrifos directly.

Rauh and her colleagues’ studies were somewhat unique in this way, as other epidemiological studies, which the EPA also used in its 2016 analysis, measured chlorpyrifos metabolites in the urine of expecting mothers, rather than the insecticide directly.

 

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Science has spoken.
But money and big business speaks for the Trump administration at the expense of our children's health.,

 

[fncceo]

Stupid analogy. Does alcohol drift from the wind putting residues on food and contaminating water like this pesticide.

Alcohol naturally occurs in many fruits and grains, and in amounts significantly higher than what would be acceptable by the EPA for pesticides.

 

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Glad to know the Trumpies approve of Trump green lighting a pesticide that gives kids brain damage.
Wonder if you'd feel the same if it gave your kid brain cancer..

"Hey, I like people who weren't captured by brain cancer, OK?"

 

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at the expense of our children's health.,

Well, maybe YOUR children.