effects of pesticides,” said Dr. Phil Landrigan, a professor of public health and epidemiologist at Boston College. “And they appear not to have taken that responsibility seriously.”
Federal regulators are poised to allow U.S. farmers to start applying a pesticide currently restricted to non-food uses on fields producing an array of food crops in a move that scientists and advocates say could threaten human and ecological health.
Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed decision to allow the first-ever uses of chlormequat chloride on wheat, barley, oats and a hybrid of rye and wheat known as triticale.