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Will Appeals Court Make EPA Ban Pesticide With Serious Health Risks? [1]

"Eric Perez and his wife, Mari, live with their five children in the Wenatchee Valley in central Washington state. Their house is just feet from an orchard. A couple of years ago, the kids were having an Easter egg hunt in the yard when they smelled something 'plasticky,' Perez remembers — like 'rotten eggs.'

Perez says they realized the orchard must have been sprayed while the family was away for their Easter lunch.

Perez says they got stomachaches, started throwing up and having trouble breathing and got diarrhea and scratchy throats.

'I think we all went to the doctor,' he remembers."

Eilís O'Neill reports for NPR February 26, 2019. [2]

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Source: NPR [2], 03/01/2019
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/will-appeals-court-make-epa-ban-pesticide-serious-health-risks [2] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/02/26/698227414/will-an-appeals-court-make-the-epa-ban-a-pesticide-linked-to-serious-health-risk [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws [7] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [8] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81