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Federal court says EPA must ban pesticide linked to brain damage in children
by Divina Ramirez

(Natural News) Children may soon be spared from a toxic pesticide that has been linked to brain damage. On April 29, the 9th United States Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must ban all uses of chlorpyrifos on food or establish new residue levels for the insecticide that are safe for children.

The decision comes after more than a decade of pressuring the agency to address chlorpyrifos’s neurotoxic effects on children and farmworkers.

In 2019, health and labor groups represented by the nonprofit law organization Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the EPA after it put off any decision to end or limit the use of chlorpyrifos. This pesticide is considered moderately hazardous to humans by the World Health Organization (WHO) because of its acute toxicity.

The federal appeals court’s decision is a huge victory for farming communities across the U.S. that may finally be spared by needless poisonings, neurological conditions and developmental disorders.

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https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-05-28-epa-must-ban-toxic-pesticide-brain-damage.html

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