21/01/2017
please read this article Save your child from Pesticides which spread on vegetables
Experimental studies and in vitro tests have suggested that there are carcinogens represented from all major classes of pesticides including organochlorine and organophosphate insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and fumigants.56 The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has identified over 45 pesticides as being potential or known carcinogens in animals. Almost half of these are still registered and in common use in the US, including the herbicide atrazine; the insecticides dichlorvos, dicofol and lindane; and the fungicides captan, pentachlorophenol and creosote.57
Epidemiological evidence of pesticides as a risk factor in childhood cancer is variable. Some studies suggest that certain childhood cancers may be related to pesticide exposures either directly or via parental exposure. A large Swedish population-based cohort study indicates increased risk of nervous system tumours, but not leukemia in children whose fathers were exposed to pesticides.58
Additional Swedish research did demonstrate an association between non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) and exposure to phenoxy herbicides in a case-control study.59A large retrospective cohort study of Norwegian farm families has determined that there was increased risk of developing certain brain tumours, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, Wilms tumour and other cancers of infancy in farm children, associated with various proxy measures of parental pesticide exposure and use.
Daniels and co-workers conducted a meta-analysis of 31 studies that examined the association between pesticide exposure and incidence of various childhood cancers.61Despite inadequacies in exposure assessment, these researchers conclude that there is indeed reason to suspect that pre-conceptional, prenatal and early childhood exposures to pesticides are associated with moderate increases in childhood brain tumours and leukemias. Home use of pesticides appeared to account for the greatest risk of these cancers.62 For example, brain cancer was found to be in association with childhood use of lindane for lice treatment.63 Others have suggested that using no-pest strips in the home also increases the risk of childhood brain tumours64 and leukemias.65
