Experts issue more pesticide warnings for kids Posted by Monica
Eng Earlier this week the Trib's health writer Julie Deardorff
blogged on a new study that linked common pesticides used in
fruit to attention deficit disorder in children. This was the
second warning in a week about exposing kids to pesticides in
food. Last week the president’s panel on cancer submitted its
report on environmental causes of cancer and advised consumers
to avoid fruits and vegetables grown with pesticides, especially
if you are feeding them to children. The George W. Bush
appointed panel--made up of Dr. LaSalle Leffall, an oncologist
and professor of surgery at Howard University, and Dr. Margaret
Kripke, an immunologist at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in
Houston-- spent the last two years reviewing the latest science
and conferring with experts from academia, industry, cancer
research and epidemiology. They concluded that the environmental
contributions to cancer have been “grossly underestimated.” Of
the 80,000 chemicals on t