Dangers posed by pesticides during pregnancy

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Dangers posed by pesticides during pregnancy.

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An expectant mother's exposure to commonly used pesticides might pose

risks to her developing fetus comparable to those long associated with

tobacco smoking, new research suggests.

In both cases, a fetus exposed to such chemicals during a mother's

pregnancy might result in childbirth taking place a few days earlier and

the newborn could weigh at least one-third of a pound less than when

there's no such exposure. And this is not research about babies born to

moms who spray chemicals on crops or who work for Orkin, either.

" This is not an unusual group, " said Dr. Bruce Lanphear, about the women

who were studied. " These are women exposed primarily through diet and

perhaps pesticides used in and around the yard, " said Lanphear, a

researcher on the

study of organophosphate pesticide exposure published Thursday

<http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F\

10.1289%2Fehp.1104615>

in /Environmental Health Perspectives/....

see also:

Maternal residence near agricultural pesticide applications and autism

spectrum disorders among children in the California Central Valley.

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