Research suggests EPA pesticide exposure test too short, overlooks long term effects
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 05:28
in Health & Medicine
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...