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4 days agoHalf of pregnant people in this Calif. county lived near harmful pesticides
The use of organophosphates - a type of agricultural pesticide linked to adverse impacts on children's brain development - jumped by 26% from 2016 to 2021 in Monterey County, a recent study found. This was despite the fact that, across California, use of these chemicals dropped after the state banned the most common one - chlorpyrifos - in 2020. Monterey was a major outlier, since only one other county, Santa Barbara, increased use, and only by 4%.
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