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US lawmakers call on EPA to ban pesticide linked to Parkinson’s disease | Politicians say use of common yet toxic paraquat can’t be justified due to apparent health and environment risks
Politicians say use of common yet toxic paraquat can’t be justified due to apparent health and environment risks
More than 50 US lawmakers are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to join dozens of other countries in banning a widely used weedkiller linked to Parkinson’s disease and other health dangers. In a 31 October letter to the agency, seven US senators said that paraquat, a weedkiller commonly applied on US farms, was a “highly toxic pesticide whose continued use cannot be justified given its harms to farmworkers and rural communities”. The push to ban paraquat in the US was “long overdue”, said Ray Dorsey, a professor of neurology at the University of Rochester who studies the causes of Parkinson’s disease.
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