Pesticides children

An examination of 5550 boys and 5496 girls in Armenia showed a marked worsening of physical development indicators among rural newborns as pesticide exposure grew. These indicators were worst in families where the parents worked in contact with pesticides. In all studied cases, children in these families were more retarded in their physical development than children whose parents had no contact with pesticides. Children were most retarded in their physical development where both parents worked with pesticides [A99]. 

Mark A. Geistfeld, Principles of Products Liability ch. 5 (2006) Restatement (Third) of Torts—Products Liability 1,2, 6 Alexandra B. Klass, Pesticides, Childrens Health Policy, and Common Law Tort Claims, 7 Minn. J. of L., Sci., Tech. 89, 128 (2005) David G. Owen, Manufacturing Defects, 53 S. Car. L. Rev. 851 (2002). 

Alexandra B. Klass, Pesticides, Childrens Health Policy, and Common Law Tort Claims, 7 Minnesota J. of Law, Science, Technology 89, 92 (2005). 

Pesticides affect children s genes and heredity, and are transferred from mother to child through breast milk. Finally, pesticides are introduced to children by the state and society, through a contaminated environment. 

Karen grew up on a prairie in Regina, Saskatchewan, where pesticides were sprayed regularly. To her knowledge, the only allergy she had as a child was to milk. At age sixteen she moved to Victoria with her family, to the home where she resides today. 

My second child, Corey, will be five this year. He was born into a nontoxic household, so he hasn t been as sick. But after a pesticide exposure when he was fourteen months, he had a seizure and started banging his head. He d have these tantrums and bang his head and scream because he was reacting, then scream because he was hurting himself and unable to stop. 

You and your children can be exposed to 1,4-di chlorobenzene in your home if you use products such as 1,4-dichlorobenzene-treated toilet bowl cleaners or mothballs containing 1,4-dichlorobenzene. You should not let your child play with or drink toilet bowl water that has been treated with 1,4-di chlorobenzene. Do not let your children rub mothballs or cleaners containing 1,4-di chlorobenzene on their skin. Because 1,4-di chlorobenzene may be found in the home as a pesticide and bathroom deodorizer and in mothballs, these items should be stored out of reach of young children to prevent accidental poisonings. Always store household chemicals in their original labeled containers never store household chemicals in containers children would find attractive to eat or drink from, such as old soda bottles. Keep your Poison Control Center s number by the phone. 

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) report Intolerable Risk Pesticides in Our Children s Food focused on the increased risk of the adverse effects of pesticides on children. This was in part because of the smaller size of the child relative to the adult and because of different food consumption practices. Relative to their size, children eat, drink, and breathe more than adults in part because they are growing. The use and regulation of pesticides illustrate the complexities of risk analysis and risk management and the difficulties in determining an acceptable level of exposure with acceptable risks. In the United States approximately 1 billion pounds of pesticides (with about 600 different active ingredients) are used annually in the agricultural sector, and worldwide approximately 4 billion pounds are used. There are a range of human health and environmental health effects associated with the use of pesticides. 

The accompanying table shows the number of different synthetic chemicals (i.e., either pesticides or industrial chemicals) that were detected in each Market Basket and the average number of contaminants for each child and infant product. 

In order to evaluate an individual s exposure to chemical mixtures, it was necessary to determine how frequently pesticide and industrial chemicals were found in each food product. The results of this determination are discussed for the basic food categories (i.e., dairy, protein, vegetable, fruit, and grain) as well as for the mixed food and child/infant food categories. 

The pesticides and industrial chemicals found in child and infant products are given in Exhibit 13. In general, the type and distribution of pesticides and industrial chemicals in child/infant products are somewhat similar to the basic food categories (i.e., dairy, protein, fruit, grain, and vegetable), but their concentrations are significantly different. On average, 45 percent of the child/infant products contain multiple contaminants as well as banned or discontinued pesticides. 

These data also show that banned pesticides also occur in child/infant products. These data are consistent with the occurrence of banned pesticides in protein and vegetable products. The only apparent inconsistency is that milk-based formula did not contain any of these pesticides. In reality, however, there should be little or no banned or discontinued pesticides in milk-based formulas since commercially available products have removed the butterfat. 

Replace all toxic cleaning products with lung- and earth-friendlier versions. Even if you re not the one cleaning, residual chemicals from these products linger in your home and are potentially very harmful to your unborn child. Apply the same approach to fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides in your garden. If you have an insect infestation, use safer insecticides like nontoxic traps. 

I guess that was my first moment of maternal anger at someone harming my child— and I wasn t even pregnant yet. My husband had explicitly requested that no pesticides... 

The younger child and toddler are susceptible to exposure from chemicals in solid food (e.g. pesticides) and air (e.g. particulate matter) and through dermal exposure (e.g. heavy metals in soil). As children are introduced to day care and schools, potential new sources of exposure to certain chemicals (e.g. cleaning agents) may occur. Older children continue to be exposed to chemicals present in... 

The Committee recommended that over-the-counter supply of pesticides for mosquito net treatment should include presentation in single-unit doses only, and that liquid formulations should be packaged in containers with child-proof caps. 

More studies are needed, however, to better estimate the exposures of small children to residential pesticides. Better methodologies need to be developed and applied to more accurately determine surface-to-skin and skin-to-mouth transfer efficiencies, pesticide bioavailability from ingested dust and the relationship of child-activity patterns to residential exposures. Such studies are essential before reliable exposure assessments can be made. 

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