These important non-cancer effects of pesticides have hardly been studied by government health authorities. At present rates of study, it will take centuries or longer before sufficient information has been gathered. Therefore, assurances of safety from most pesticide exposures cannot be based on sound scientific evidence, but more on wishful thinking, or guesswork. Frankly, it appears that the U.S. government's current pesticide program was designed primarily to protect something other than the health and well being of the public. Many pesticides now in use are simply not needed.
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