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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2015 14:23:47 GMT -5
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Post by kimmsr🕊 on May 10, 2015 6:19:30 GMT -5
The link did not work for me.
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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on May 10, 2015 9:28:00 GMT -5
Kimm, try: ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1307044/. The study seems to me to be limited in size (only 970), as well as geographic area (California) but from skimming the article the CHARGE study is an ongoing one of which this report is one study result. And apparently the area in question is one in which pesticides are used.
What I do think is significant beyond the results is that the Environmental Health Perspectives is affiliated with the NIH. It doesn't exonerate the pesticide industry as do industry affiliated "studies".
Since I found no copyright notation, I'm just posting the results, with assumption that Coppice wouldn't object since it was his discovery of this article.
"This study of ASD strengthens the evidence linking neurodevelopmental disorders with gestational pesticide exposures, particularly organophosphates, and provides novel results of ASD and DD associations with, respectively, pyrethroids and carbamates."
ASD - Autism Spectrum Disorder DD - Dwevelopmental Delays
For our California residents, this is particularly unsettling:
"California is the top agriculture-producing state in the nation, grossing $38 billion in revenue from farm crops in 2010 (California Department of Food and Agriculture 2010). Each year approximately 200 million pounds of active pesticide ingredients are applied throughout the state [California Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR) 2014]. Although pesticides are critical for the modern agricultural industry, (my emphasis) certain commonly used pesticides have been associated with abnormal and impaired neurodevelopment in children (Bouchard et al. 2010, 2011; Engel et al. 2007; Eskenazi et al. 2006; Grandjean et al. 2006; Guillette et al. 1998; Rauh et al. 2006; Ribas-Fito et al. 2006; Torres-Sánchez et al. 2007; Young et al. 2005). In addition, specific associations have been reported between agricultural pesticides and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) (Roberts et al. 2007) and the broader diagnostic category under which autism falls, the pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) (Eskenazi et al. 2007)."
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2015 9:55:04 GMT -5
I expect industry "experts" to refute this study. But if it bears up parents can finally start to ask the right questions.
I'm just a grandparent who frets over the grand-babies.
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