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Pesticide Exposure Linked to Low IQ
Posted by admin on April 27, 2011 in News
It has been revealed that children exposed to pesticides which are commonly used on food crops score as much as seven points lower on standardized intelligence tests by the time they reach the age of 7. Every tenfold increase in organophosphates detected during a mother’s pregnancy relates to a 5.5 point drop in overall IQ [...]