Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Pesticides

Are we protecting our Children from Pesticides?

The Health Council of the Netherlands has just produced a report called ’Pesticides in food: assessing the risk to children’, in which they answer three question:
Are children more vulnerable to xenobiotic compounds in general and to pesticides in particular?
What does this mean for the derivation of safe levels for chronic and short (generally a single) exposure to these substances?
How can the risk assessment take into account the fact that levels of child exposure to pesticides are (...)

Environmental diseases

New studies link Parkinson’s disease with PCBs

In two companion papers published in the journal NeuroToxicology (Dec. 2004 and Feb. 2005), University of Rochester researchers have identified early environmental risks for Parkinson’s disease, a progressive neurological disorder that affects one in every 100 Americans over age 60.
The study investigating the link between Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pesticides and Parkinson’s disease has demonstrated new and intricate reactions that occur in certain brain cells, making them more (...)

More issues

New study in the US shows organic diet protects children from some pesticides

The US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) conducted a new study to be published in their peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Health Perspectives.
The study was conducted over a period of 15 days on 23 elementary school-age children. They were tested every day for specific metabolites of malathion and chlorpyrifos, two organophosphates (Ops), pesticides known to cause neurological effects.
The study consisted in changing the children’s diet from conventional to (...)