Trump allowed this pesticide to stay on the market. Under Biden, EPA is banning it.
Source: Washington Post
The Environmental Protection Agency will ban use of a pesticide widely applied on food crops but linked to neurological damage in children, reversing one of the Trump administration’s most fraught public health decisions. The final rule released Wednesday will put a stop to the spraying of chlorpyrifos on fruits and vegetables across the country, to protect the health of both farmworkers dispersing the pesticide and children eating produce treated with it.
The move to curtail use of the potent insect-killing chemical overturns a 2017 decision by then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to keep the pesticide on the market despite a recommendation by the agency’s scientists to restrict it given its potential risks. “This comes after more than a decade of science in which it became pretty clear that there were potential neurodevelopmental effects on children that were being observed at lower levels than people had previously thought,” Michal Freedhoff, the EPA’s top official for chemical safety and pollution prevention, said in a phone interview.
For a half-century, chlorpyrifos has proved effective in keeping all sorts of pests off soybeans, almonds trees, cauliflower and other crops. Farmers often deploy it when no other pesticide can do the job. But for the past decade, environmental, labor and public health groups have clamored for phasing out the pesticide, which can lead to headaches or blurred vision when inhaled or ingested. Some studies of families in apartment buildings found exposure during pregnancy led to memory loss and other cognitive issues in children.
The EPA is using a 1996 food quality law that strengthened protections for infants and children to issue its ban. Claudia Angulo, a farmworker who came from Mexico to work the citrus and broccoli fields in California’s San Joaquin Valley, was pregnant when she was exposed to chlorpyrifos. She blames the pesticide for her son Isaac’s developmental delays, after the chemical showed up in tests on his hair. “It’s affecting a lot of families. We’re all being affected, either with allergies or some with disabilities,” said Angulo, who is now part of a class-action lawsuit. “As a mother, I’m still struggling and won’t stop until this pesticide is not harming kids.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/08/18/chlorpyrifos/
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It is a neurotoxin that is commonly used on crops.
Its also used on YOUR BEST FRIEND.
Check the ingredients of Comfortis! 
Thank you President Biden!
Thank you and sally forth! 
