Biden EPA Bans Chemical Pesticide Linked to Psychological Health Disorders in Children

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Source: New American Journal

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Millions of children just in the United States have been diagnosed with some form of attention deficit disorder and/or hyperactivity disorder by psychiatrists and psychologists, and are often treated with pharmaceutical medication or behavioral therapy.

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Farmers have been spraying chlorpyrifos on food crops such as strawberries, apples, citrus fruits, broccoli and corn since 1965. But studies now show this pesticide is inked to neurological damage in children, including reduced IQ, loss of working memory, and attention deficit disorders.

While the Trump administration fought to keep it in use, the Biden administration just announced it would be banned in food from now on after a court ruling forced the Environmental Protection Agency to provide proof of the chemical’s safety or regulate it out of existence.

This week the EPA issued a final ruling saying chlorpyrifos can no longer be used on the food that makes its way onto American dinner plates, a regulatory action intended to protect children and farmworkers, according to a press release from the agency.



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[lookyhereyou]

1. good thank you

keep going

[Champp]

2. Big Chem loves to have their poisons sprayed all over kingdom come

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Just Checked The Structure

A phospho/sulfide ether attached to a polychlorinated pyridine.
There's not one piece of that structure that looks safe, to me.

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5. Anything I managed to learn from my organic chemistry classes fled my brain years ago.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. I Spent 43 Years Doing It

I'm only in my third year of retirement.
Haven't forgotten much at this point!
I worked on a reaction for which a side product needed to be analyzed using pyridine. We knew 40 years ago that pyridine was a bad actor, and we were generating enough samples that one of my analytical folks would have done nothing but that method.
So, I developed an electrometric technique that eliminated the use of that leveling solvent. I didn't worry about vetting it through analytical because it was consistent. Accuracy wasn't relevant (although a year later is was shown to be both more accurate & precise). But, it was WAY, WAY safer. That mattered more than anything else. Especially given it was 80 something samples a week.