Sentences with phrase «term effects of pesticide»

While the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains that pesticides at low levels aren't harmful, it's safe to say that the long - term effects of pesticide use are probably not being taken into consideration.

But the short - term and long - term effects of pesticide exposure are still poorly understood, and experts disagree on just how concerned parents should be.

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The reproduction rate may be reduced by sublethal long - term effects of synthetic pesticides used in conventional agriculture.

«Fifty - one of the pesticides we tested in this study had never been analyzed in terms of their effects on respiratory outcomes.

A study, published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, looked at the neurobehavioral effects of long - term exposure to pesticides as a 4 - year follow - up of the PHYTONER study.

Despite concerns about the effect of these pesticides on humans, Frieden said they are safe when used as directed, and no short - term health problems have been reported.

Exposure to pesticides and fungicides have been proven to cause negative short - term or long - term effects on the environment and the health of animals and humans, especially in the reproductive, endocrine and central nervous systems.

Neither study involved the use of grass - fed organic meats, which is critical because hormones and pesticides used in livestock farming also have negative long - term effects on patient health.

Bruce Blumberg, professor of developmental and cell biology and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of California, Irvine, who coined the term «obesogen,» studies the effect that organotins — a class of persistent organic pollutants that are widely used in the manufacture of polyvinylchloride plastics, as fungicides and pesticides on crops, as slimicides in industrial water systems, as wood preservatives, and as marine antifouling agents — have on the body's metabolism.

All three showed that prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides, whether used on crops in the fields or to control cockroaches in apartments, can cause long - term effects on the brain health of children — a «bombshell» finding.