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PESTICIDES
UK crops sprayed
twelve times


Death by chocolate - cocoa
plantations heavily sprayed

Coca Cola the new DDT

Carrots - must peel,
top and tail

Pesticides in the home

Greater exposure to
pesticides indoors

House and lawn pesticides
quadruple children's
cancer risk

Children more at
risk than adults

Alternatives to
pesticides at home

Wheat and garden pesticides
cause birth defects


Autism from organo-
phosphate exposure?

Cars vacuum up pesticides

Drugs war in Columbia
- the true cost of spraying

Good enough for them

Canadian towns outlaw
lawn pesticides


Deadly dust from dried
out farmlands


Ear infections linked to
pesticide exposure in womb


Integrated pest management
reduces pesticide use


Pesticide cocktails

Pesticides and prostate cancer

Sheep dip syndrome real


Pesticides found in sperm

Pesticides in the home
increase risk of Parkinson's

 
Alternatives to pesticides for home use
The Pesticides Trust has produced a series of leaflets giving the least toxic alternatives to pesticides. These cover: timber treatment; head lice; flea control; wasp control; house mite control; cockroach control; and rodent control. They cost £2 each (£7.50 the set) and are available from: The Pesticides Trust, Eurolink Centre, 49 Effra Road, London SW2 1BZ.

Ed.- Several studies have shown that cancer rates in children are very much higher where pesticides are used in the home.

(6174) Pesticides Trust