ApocaDocs: Women living near pesticide-treated fields have smaller babies

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Posted Thu Sep 19 2013: from Environmental Health News:


	Women living near pesticide-treated fields have smaller babies http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1379599541 Women in Northern California farm towns gave birth to smaller babies if they lived within three miles of strawberry fields and other crops treated with the pesticide methyl bromide, according to researchers. The soil fumigant, which is injected into the soil before planting, can volatize into the air, exposing nearby neighborhoods. Use of methyl bromide has been declining over the past decade under an international treaty that phases out chemicals that deplete the Earth's protective ozone layer. Strawberries and a few other crops are exempt under the ban because they are deemed "critical uses."

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'Doc Michael says:

I have always considered babies to be pests.