Research from UC Davis Health found that 22% of adults and 10% of children who took part in an air-quality study in California’s San Joaquin Valley were breathing detectable levels of pesticides.
Research from UC Davis Health found that 22% of adults and 10% of children who took part in an air-quality study in California’s San Joaquin Valley were breathing detectable levels of pesticides. That includes one chemical, chlorpyrifos, that is no longer permitted in California.
The new findings are published in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology.
“Although the cohort in our study was small, the findings are significant because they show children and adults in agricultural regions of the San Joaquin Valley of California continue to be exposed to pesticides and herbicides. This is despite efforts to decrease their use,” said Deborah H. Bennett, first author of the study. Bennett is a professor of environmental health at the UC Davis School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences.
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