-100% of Americans have traces of pesticides in their body tissue and fluids.
Second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC), January 2003.
- Children in households where pesticides are used have higher rates of leukemia and brain cancer.
Leiss, J. et al. 1995. “Home Pesticide Use and Childhood Cancer: A Case Control Study,” American Journal of Public Health 85: 249-252.
- Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (2nd fastest growing cancer in the U.S.) is linked to common herbicides and fungicides such as glyphosate (Round Up ingredient).
Zahm, S. et al. 1990 “A Case Control Study of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and the herbicide 2,4-D” Epidemiology 1 (5): 349-356. Hardell, L. et al. March 1999, “A Case Control Study of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and exposure to Pesticides,” Journal of the American Cancer Society, (85): 6, p. 1353.
- Dogs whose owners use 2,4-D (common weedkiller) on their lawns are twice as likely to die of cancer.
Hayes, H. et al, 1991. “Case Control Study of Canine Malignant Lymphoma: Positive Association With Dog Owners’ Use of 2,4-D Acid Herbicides,” Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 83 (17): 1226.
- Fertilizers and pesticides from lawn runoff are highly damaging to the ecology of our streams, ponds and Long Island Sound
Burg, Robert, Editor, Sound Health 2006; The Long Island Sound Study, EPA Long Island Sound Office, Stamford, CT p. 12, p. 15.
- 67 million birds are killed every year by pesticides.
US Fish & Wildlife Service Audubon Magazine, March April 2007, p. 88.
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