Chlorpyrifos: common pesticide tied to brain damage in children
Chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide, is strongly linked to brain damage in children. Longitudinal birth cohort study of inner-city mothers and children found that “Higher prenatal CPF exposure, as measured in umbilical cord blood plasma, was associated with decreases in cognitive functioning on two different WISC-IV indices, in a sample of urban minority children at […]