"US Bans Toxic Pesticide on Food Crops"| Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/18/us-bans-toxic-pesticide-food-crops
"Exposure to chlorpyrifos is associated with a number of health risks, including endocrine disruption, suffocation, and adverse impacts on fetal and childhood development associated with prenatal exposure, all of which were outlined in the original 2007 petition to ban the pesticide. In the decade that followed, the risks only became more clear. By 2015, the EPA acknowledged that they could not conclude that use of chlorpyrifos met federal safety standards. But chlorpyrifos remained legal – and continued to be used – for six more years.
“'During that time,' wrote Judge Jed Rakoff in his April decision for the 9th Circuit ordering EPA to make a final decision on the safety of the pesticide, 'the EPA’s egregious delay exposed a generation of American children to unsafe levels of chlorpyrifos.'"
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