Pitt research suggests EPA pesticide exposure test too short, overlooks long term effects
Monday, August 17, 2009 - 13:56
in Health & Medicine
PITTSBURGH -- The four-day testing period the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) commonly uses to determine safe levels of pesticide exposure for humans and animals could fail to account for the toxins' long-term effects, University of Pittsburgh researchers report in the September edition of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.