Many studies have documented human risk to pesticide exposure. Children are a more sensi-tive population than adults. You cannot think of children as small adults they are growing rapidly and are more vulnerable to chemical exposure. They absorb more toxic agents and have not fully formed a protective blood brain barrier. Therefore an exposure that has no measurable effect on an adult can cause a deleterious reaction in children.
Children are more susceptible to pollutants than are adults.
Furthermore, babies fed infant formula rather than breast milk will absorb more heavy metals, such as manganese than will a breast-fed child or an adult. A calcium-deficient diet in childhood will also trigger increased uptake of lead and manganese. Recent studies show that trace levels of multiple pesticides cause increased aggression. It is noteworthy that aggression was triggered with trace combinations of multiple pesticides but not exposure to a single pesticide. Specifi cally trace pesticide mixtures have induced abnormal thy-roid hormone levels.