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New Yorkers exposed to more pesticides than rural residents
http://grist.org/news/new-yorkers-exposed-to-more-pesticides-than-rural-residents/
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New Yorkers can eat all the organics that they want — but that won’t be enough to protect them from the Big Apple’s stubborn pesticide problem.
Despite living in a dense city with only tiny patches of agriculture (much of it organic, local, and ad-hoc), New York City residents have higher exposure levels than most Americans to two toxic classes of pesticide, according to a new study.
And the poisons are not just hitchhiking in on the produce.
Researchers studied data from samples taken from New York City residents in 2004 and found that “exposure to pyrethroids and dimethyl organophosphates were higher in NYC than in the US overall.”