Comments on: Common Household Pesticides Linked To Childhood Cancer http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2171 News on pesticide science, policy and activism Thu, 16 May 2013 16:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pat Morris http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2171#comment-85039 Pat Morris Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:43:08 +0000 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2171#comment-85039 This is another study along with

“Residential proximity to agricultural pesticide applications and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia”

Rudolph P. Rull, Robert Gunier, Julie Von Behren, Andrew Hertz, Vonda Crouse, Patricia A. Buffler and Peggy Reynolds

Environmental Research
Volume 109, Issue 7, October 2009, pages 891-899

This study assessed exposure (using logistic regression) to various chemicals by residential histories, but selected 118 chemicals to analyze out of 600 possible targets. Moderate exposure to pesticides (including organophosphates, chlorinated phenols, and triazines, and pesticides classified as insecticides or fumigants) contributed to acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), but high exposure did not?

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