Based on our study, I feel that more research is urgently needed to establish whether the standards need to be re-evaluated. |
Children are substantially more susceptible, because they have like a double whammy. |
People have this remarkable difference in enzymes that defend their health from pesticide exposure. |
People have this remarkable difference in enzymes that defend their health from pesticide exposure. In developing regulatory standards for safe levels of exposure, we need to protect the most sensitive in a population, particularly because children and unborn fetuses are involved. |
They (organophosphates) can be tracked from outside in because some of these people in our study live in housing just next to the fields. |
Very young children can just not protect themselves as effectively as adults can. |
What we thought was so important, this risk factor that is right now considered to be sufficient for children. Most of the pesticides are not covered by any additional safety factor for children. |