Chemical Roulette: EPA Investigates Pesticides . . . Slowly

By Marguerite Lamb
Published on February 1, 2001
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The EPA seems to be dragging their feet when it comes to banning dangerous chemicals on food.
The EPA seems to be dragging their feet when it comes to banning dangerous chemicals on food.
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Under the law, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
was to have finished a third of the job by August 1999,
giving priority to the riskiest pesticides, including 45
organophosphates (OPs), highly effective poisons that kill
by inhibiting an enzyme necessary for proper nervous system
function. (Some of the more potent organophosphates were

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