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Mom's pesticide exposure raises risk of infant leukemia

Environmental Health News - BRAZIL

A mother's exposure to pesticides before, during and after pregnancy may increase the risk of infant leukemia diagnosed before the age of 2, found a study from Brazil. Children were twice as likely to develop the rare cancers if their mothers were exposed three months before conception when compared to mothers who reported no exposures. A mother's exposure at any time to the insecticide permethrin also raised the cancer risk for infants...  http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/2012/10/2013-0121-pesticides-permethrin-womb-leukemia/

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GM Crops: Farmer to Farmer Talk

In this short documentary Michael Hart, a conventional livestock family farmer, discusses the reality of farming genetically modified crops in the USA ten years after their introduction.

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