Exposures to the insecticide chlorpyrifos in pregnancy adversely affect child development
...ren who were exposed prenatally to the insecticide chlorpyrifos had significantly poorer mental and motor developm...age three, the children with the highest levels of chlorpyrifos at birth (upper 20th percentile) had significantly worse mental development and poorer motor skills ...Organic diets lower children's exposure to two common pesticides
...o organophosphorus pesticides (OP) - malathion and chlorpyrifos - in 23 elementary students in the Seattle area by testing their urine over a 15-day period. The participants, ages 3 to 11-years-old, were first monitored for three days on their conventional diets before the researchers substituted most of the chil...