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Is your children’s schoolyard routinely sprayed with pesticides? How safe your children are might depend on where you live. Today we hear about how and why one pesticide has been banned for household use, but affects the health of farmworkers and their children. Children’s health is especially fragile–so why aren’t we protecting them?
Featuring:
- Kim Harley, UC Berkeley Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health, associate director
- Isabel Arrollo, El Quinto Sol de America organizer
- Jennifer Sass, Natural Resources Defense Council senior scientist
- Tracey Brieger, Californians for Pesticide Reform co-director
- Marina Gomez, Brian Jimenez-Gomez, CHAMACOS research participants
- Margaret Reeves, Pesticide Action Network senior scientist
- Valerie Bengal, family physician and UC San Francisco clinical professor
- Brett Knupfer, Ohlone Elementary School principal
- Marcy Mock, Ohlone special education teacher
- Casimira Salazar, Ohlone migrant education teacher
- Cynthia Fernandez, Ohlone 2nd grade teacher
- Brett McFadden, Pajaro Valley Unified School District chief business officer
- Mary Ellen Kustin, Environmental Working Group policy analyst
Li Miao Lovett produced this report with a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, in collaboration with Making Contact’s Andrew Stelzer.
More Information
Resources and reports:
- California pesticide use reporting
- “Agricultural Pesticide Use Near Public Schools in California,” Apr. 2014, California Environmental Health Tracking Program
- Ohlone School pesticide monitoring news, Sept. 2013
- Integrated pest management of citrus, University of California, Riverside
- Coalition letter to California Department of Pesticide Regulation, Jan. 2014
- “Chlorpyrifos Preliminary Human Health Risk Assessment,” Jun. 2011, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- “Evidence on the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity of Chlorpyrifos,” Sept. 2008, California Environmental Protection Agency
- Chlorpyrifos health effects, Apr. 2012, U.S. EPA’s Scientific Advisory Panel
- Human oral toxicity study for chlorpyrifos, Kisicki et al 1999
