(Beyond Pesticides, July 6, 2023) A study published in Environmental Health Perspectives finds concentrations of organophosphate (OP) metabolites in urine during the prenatal phase have links to ...

For more than 30 years, science has warned that organophosphate pesticides damage developing brains, especially in pregnant women and children, writes local activist and retired nurse. Yet the ...

Public health experts have found there is sufficient evidence that prenatal exposure to widely used insecticides known as organophosphates puts children at risk for neurodevelopmental disorders.

Brain and nervous system damaged by low-level exposure to organophosphate pesticides Date: December 3, 2012 Source: University College London - UCL Summary: Scientists have found that low-level ...

Exposure to organophosphate ester (OPE) metabolites, a newer group of widely used chemical flame retardants, is linked to a higher risk for thyroid disease, bis(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (BCEP) being ...

The World Health Organization has reportedly been trying for years to get India to ban the highly toxic organophosphate pesticide that's being blamed for the deaths of 23 schoolchildren. Reuters ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 9, 2018) A Tunisian study (published in January 2018) on the effects in pre-pubertal mice of exposure to malathion — an organophosphate pesticide first registered for use ...

After years of urging the EPA to do something about the use of organophospate pesticides, Earthjustice is taking it one step further with a lawsuit. Earthjustice has brought a suit against the EPA on ...

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