Moreover, the average preschooler consumes five times more cow's milk than an adult woman. Furthermore, the N.R.D.C. calculated that the actual risk of all pesticides in our food and drinking water could represent more than one million additional cases of cancer over the course of our lifetimes. Children are more vulnerable to residue ingestion because their livers are unable to detoxify many of the chemicals. Probable carcinogens, like benomyl, permithril, captan, dieldrin, and heptachlor, which are also neurotoxins, can cause damage to developing nervous systems. The pyrethroids resmethrin and allethrin are the active ingredients of one commonly used insecticide.
Insecticides function to disrupt proper nerve transmission.
When a pesticide has been approved for use on a crop, that doesn't mean the chemical was used or that the residue will be present at the time of harvest. When a fruit or vegetable is contaminated with a known residue, the processed products from that produce will be even more contaminated. Therefore, a twelve-ounce glass of apple juice will contain more residue than twelve ounces of apples. In addition, some pesticides become more toxic after being processed. Residues found in meat, meat products, cow's milk, milk products, and eggs are a result of what the animal is fed.