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On Aug 6, 4:19*pm, Billy wrote:
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/...de-exposure-lo
wer-iq/

Prenatal pesticide exposure tied to lower IQ in children
By Sarah Yang, Media Relations | April 20, 2011
BERKELEY
In a new study suggesting pesticides may be associated with the health
and development of children, researchers at the University of
California, Berkeleys School of Public Health have found that prenatal
exposure to organophosphate pesticides widely used on food crops is
related to lower intelligence scores at age 7.

The researchers found that every tenfold increase in measures of
organophosphates detected during a mothers pregnancy corresponded to a
5.5 point drop in overall IQ scores in the 7-year-olds. Children in the
study with the highest levels of prenatal pesticide exposure scored
seven points lower on a standardized measure of intelligence compared
with children who had the lowest levels of exposure.

The three pesticide studies in Environmental Health Perspectives are
available for free *online:
€ Bouchard et al., Prenatal Exposure to Organophosphate Pesticides
and IQ in 7-Year-Old Children (UC Berkeley)
€ Engel et al., Prenatal Exposure to Organophosphates, Paraoxonase
1, and Cognitive Development in Childhood (Mt. Sinai)
€ Rauh et al., 7-Year Neurodevelopmental Consequences of Prenatal
Exposure to Chlorpyrifos, a Common Organophosphate Pesticide
(Columbia)
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your trending towards more scary tales again billy. This is what,
the 3rd sophist plug this week?

Sorry Gunny, I didn't mean to scare you. Perhaps you shouldn't be with
the adults, and would be more comfortable in a childerens newsgroup.
Then you could work on contractions, and when to use capital letters.
Wouldn't that be fun for you?

What specious argument do you have for us today, Gunny, hmmm? What do
you find to be the optimum level of organophosphate consumption for a
child's health, cognitive, or otherwise, Gunny, hmmm?

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