Every day, about 77,000 infants in the U.S. are exposed to unsafe levels through eating baby food preparations of apple juice, apple sauce, pears and peaches. More than a quarter million American children ages one through five ingest a combination of 20 different pesticides every day. More than 1 million preschoolers eat at least 15 pesticides on a given day.
Schools use such pesticides for treatment of ants, roaches etc.
Children have nearly 7 times the risk of developing Leukemia when pesticides are used in their homes or gardens. A single glass of tap water can contain up to nine pesticides. J. W. Roberts and P. Dickey in Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Vol. Consultancy for Alternative Education, Quebec.