The toxic pesticide harming our children and environment
. . . What You Need to Know about Chlorpyrifos . . . .
- article . . . & 2:51 video
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. . . What is chlorpyrifos?
Chlorpyrifos (pronounced: klawr-pir-uh-fos)
is a neurotoxic pesticide widely used in U.S. agriculture. Generally sprayed on crops, it’s used to kill a variety of agricultural pests.
It has a slightly skunky odor, similar to rotten eggs or garlic, and can be harmful if it is touched, inhaled, or eaten.
Chlorpyrifos is acutely toxic and associated with neurodevelopmental harms in children.
Prenatal exposures to chlorpyrifos are associated with lower birth weight, reduced IQ, loss of working memory, attention disorders, and delayed motor development.
Acute poisoning suppresses the enzyme that regulates nerve impulses in the body and can cause convulsions, respiratory paralysis, and, in extreme cases, . . .
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[poster's note: See subsequent articles, too. this rings a lot of bells for me - and for my late mother, too.
We were both exposed to this stuff, each month with the pest spraying in the house, around the edges of all rooms . . . I was soon after that in a new modular house that had to be treated fully - lots and lots of stuff used, likely included this.
I thought the professionals would be safe but now, it seems, not always the case. The article a few posts down from the Balitmore Sun in 2000 is sobering, deeping troubling. but a lot of my symptoms at that time seem to really match the Baltimore Sun article in striking ways. Oh, my. ] -
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. . . Dursban is a cousin of the deadly nerve gas developed by German scientists during World War II.
Its active chemical is a nerve agent called chlorpyrifos.
Dursban and similar insecticides, called organophosphates, kill by depleting the body of enzymes essential to normal operation of the nervous system.
Scores of lab tests over the years show Dursban can enter the body through the skin or the lungs.
As with all organophosphates, Dursban at low levels of exposure causes dizziness and nausea.
As exposures increase, victims can suffer lasting neurological problems. At higher levels, Dursban will kill. . . .
. . . What sets Dursban apart from similar bug killers is its potency and the wide array of products in which it's used.
EPA records show Americans used 20.9 million pounds of Dursban last year (1999).
Its manufacturer, DOW AgroSciences, says
70 percent of Dursban is used to kill termites.
But other Dursban products are used outdoors on lawns and shrubs, and indoors in offices, schools, hotels, hospitals and restaurants. Dursban also is used frequently in pet flea collars.
These opportunities for exposure have led to
about 7,000 accidental poisonings every year
involving Dursban and other chlorpyrifos-based products - more than any other insecticide of its type, EPA reports say.. . . -
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