Is your children’s schoolyard routinely sprayed with pesticides? How safe your children are might depend on where you live. Today we hear about how and why one pesticide has been banned for household use, but affects the health of farmworkers and their children. Children’s health is especially fragile–so why aren’t we protecting them?
This program received funding from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
Featuring:
Kim Harley, Center for Environmental Research in Children’s Health associate director; Isabel Arrollo, El Quinto Sol de America organizer; Jennifer Sass, Natural Resources Defense Council senior scientist; Tracey Brieger, Californians for Pesticide Reform co-director; Marina Gomez, Brian Jimenez-Gomez, CHAMACOS research participants; Margaret Reeves, Pesticide Action Network senior scientist; Valerie Bengal, family physician and UC San Francisco clinical professor; Brett Knupfer, Ohlone Elementary School principal; Marcy Mock, Ohlone special education teacher; Casimira Salazar, Ohlone migrant education teacher; Cynthia Fernandez, Ohlone 2nd grade teacher; Brett McFadden, Pajaro Valley Unified School District chief business officer; Mary Ellen Kustin, Environmental Working Group policy analyst.
For More information:
CHAMACOS (Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas) study
Californians for Pesticide Reform
Pesticide Action Network North America
National Resources Defense Council
Fund for Investigative Journalism
Resources and reports:
California pesticide use reporting
Ohlone School pesticide monitoring news, Sept. 2013
Integrated pest management of citrus, University of California, Riverside
Coalition letter to California Department of Pesticide Regulation, Jan. 2014
Chlorpyrifos health effects, Apr. 2012, U.S. EPA’s Scientific Advisory Panel
Human oral toxicity study for chlorpyrifos, Kisicki et al 1999