Health & Safety

Today's Children, Tomorrow's Adults

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publication titled “Pesticides and Their Impact on Children: Key Facts and Talking Points (epa.gov) states:

"50 percent of the 2 million poisoning incidents each year involve children younger than six years old, and 90 percent of these incidents occur in and around the home."

To learn more, please download the above EPA’s article in PDF format. If you are thinking this does not apply to you, please bear in mind wherever children, pets, as well as all nonproblematic and beneficial lifeforms touch and breath, in most cases there is no comprehensible warning present.

"Adverse effects of pesticide exposure range from mild symptoms of dizziness and nausea to serious, long-term neurological, developmental and reproductive disorders."

This can be especially problematic for children since "Children's behaviors, such as playing on the floor or on the lawn where pesticides are commonly applied or putting objects in their mouths increase their chances of exposure to pesticides."

As a society, "Americans use more than a billion pounds of pesticides each year to combat pests on farm crops, in homes, places of business, schools, parks, hospitals, and other public places."