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Title: Pesticide Caused Kids' Brain Damage, California Lawsuits Say
Author: janrinok
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 04:54:00 -0400
Link: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/07/14/1545223&from=rss

upstart[1] writes:

Pesticide caused kids' brain damage, California lawsuits say[2]:

Lawsuits filed Monday in California seek potential class-action damages from Dow Chemical and its successor company over a widely used bug killer linked to brain damage in children.

Chlorpyrifos is approved for use on more than 80 crops, including oranges, berries, grapes, soybeans, almonds and walnuts, though California banned sales of the pesticide last year and spraying of it this year. Some other states, including New York, have moved to ban it. Stuart Calwell, lead attorney in the lawsuits, argued that its effects linger in Central Valley agricultural communities contaminated by chlorpyrifos during decades of use, with
measurable levels still found in his clients' homes.

Lawyers project that at least 100,000 homes in the nation's largest agricultural state may need to dispose of most of their belongings because
they are contaminated with the pesticide. "We have found it in the houses, we have found it in carpet, in upholstered furniture, we found it in a teddy
bear, and we found it on the walls and surfaces," Calwell said. "Then a little child picks up a teddy bear and holds on to it."

[...] Corteva stopped producing the pesticide last year. The Delaware-based company was created after a merger of Dow Chemical and Dupont and had been the world's largest manufacturer of chlorpyrifos. The company has said it believes the product is safe and said it stopped production because of declining sales.

Scientific studies have shown that chlorpyrifos damages the brains of fetuses and children. It was first used in 1965 but was banned for household use in 2001.

More information on Chlorpyrifos at Wikipedia[3] and EPA[4].

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[1]: http://soylentnews.org/~upstart/ (link)
[2]: https://apnews.com/article/business-science-health-environment-and-nature-lawsuits-e032c7516dcf1404ad3f0b75e09bf743 (link)
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorpyrifos (link)
[4]: https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/chlorpyrifos (link)
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