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Three papers published in Environmental Health Perspectives document the deleterious effects of organophosphate pesticides on children’s IQ levels. One study, from UC Berkeley, focused on agricultural workers’ children in Salinas, California. Host Bruce Gellerman talks to epidemiologist Brenda Eskenazi, the lead author of the UC Berkeley study.
Three recently published papers in Environmental Health Perspectives document the effects of low-level organophosphate pesticide exposure on children’s IQ.